Dont mention the sunflowers.....

Lovely day in the garden, just generally tidying and digging over the ground to get ready for planting some herbaceous plants. Spring feels like it has arrived at least for today. Everywhere is full of bird song and the rooks are circling around building what can only be described as the equivalent of a high rise mansion house.

Its nearly time for the annual sunflower growing competition, this is a local friendly event which I won last year but someone up the lane thinks she will win this year (was a previous winner - might be fair to say a bad loser haha )...and today while I was sitting in the garden the ducks that (surprisingly) also live up the lane just blatantly waddled in and ate my cache of egg shells I religiously save to use as slug deterrents.... there is definitely an ulterior agenda here - these ducks have been trained!!! I strongly suspect this is an early tactic to sabotage my sunflowers.... evil plans afoot I wonder!!!! There's a lot at stake here - reputation and a trophy!!!

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Scotland part 2

The second half of the week continued in much the same vein. We had one rainy afternoon which was actually quite nice to be holed up in the house with the rain lashing the windows. It probably wasn't quite so nice for the two visitors that came on their bikes but they're tough cookies - and its only water- but I did feel sorry for them having to cycle six miles back down the track in the wind and rain, but given Scotland, it wasn't as bad as it could be.

Funchal

So after three days at sea we finally hit Funchal in Madeira. An escape from the ship, and I have to say it was very pleasant indeed. First of all the weather is really splendid. Especially when you know that everybody else in the UK is suffering grim storms and vile winds.. Over here it is between 22 and 25 degrees is really quite warm. Funchal is a pretty city. It's built on a hill it with lots of lovely white houses with stunning red roofs. In order to get the best of it we walked along the sea front until we got to the cable car and we took it up the hill. It was a really good ride much longer than we imagined and it's quite weird because it goes right through the town - completely over everybody's house... So not only do you get a lovely vista of the bay but you can view the beautiful rooftops and get to look in everybody's gardens and to look at their picnic sets.. clean washing nice plants... scratty backyards.... We got off th

ROCKS - in which I share the Hopetoun and Esperance pictures....

I'm about to post a load of pictures of rocks... look away if you are not interested...There are more but its faffy making them smaller to upload so I'm doing it a bit at a time... Enjoy mount Barren rocks on summit Mount Barren Views... Cave Point - unreachable cave Small reachable Cave scree to unreachable cave Frenchmans Peak Cave Frenchmans peak View Frenchmans Peak Summit Esperance Headland Boulders Esperance Headland with fisherman for scale Eperance other headland cave Esperance other headland...

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