Garden Fayre & Edward

Woke up this morning to rain - considering yesterday was so wonderful it was a surprise and I thought we wouldn't be able to go to the Solent Garden Fayre we had planned to attend. However, the weather cleared (although it was still very humid)so we went along and it was really good. It cost £3.50 to get in but for that you got a programme, a canvas bag and a bar of free trade chocolate :-). We wandered around the numerous plant stalls saying "that's nice, we'll have to come back for that later" but, of course, when later came we had forgotten which stall each of the plants we wanted was on. We found two easily enough but the third, a geranium with lovely patterned leaves, took several joint circuits of the grounds, one solo circuit by Peter and one solo circuit by me - I finally found it by visualising that I had seen the plant on a high shelf and just targeting the stalls with those type of shelves. I also purchased a rather handsome looking wooden duck at a craft stall -the stall owner was a bit of a joker and said "by the way, his name is Edward" -"ok...", I said; then came the punch line "cos his ed's made of wood" - oh dear.........

Once home we chilled out for a bit and I watched a film whilst Peter had a cat nap -after 45 mins he seemed energised and started attacking a flower bed with a pick axe - I'm convinced he's hiding some pep pills in his bedside cabinet you know.

Come 8.00pm I was flaked out and went to bed with a headache but by 9.00pm it had cleared and we both enjoyed watching the fabulous 'Wild China' on BBC 2. We have taped Jonathan Dimbleby's 'Russia' to watch later.