Getting on, plans brewing, unexpected bad news, and a blog milestone.

Up and out bright and early to the Bath Farmers' Market and managed to resist most of the temptations on offer there! We then went for breakfast at Prior Park garden centre before coming home and fiddling about in the van for a while.  We are both feeling very fidgety and footloose at the moment and talking even more about all sorts of possibilities for what to do with our lives. Most of these involve us taking Bella all around Europe with us this Spring/Summer in the van. But we are wondering how she will be able to cope with the heat of a mainland European Summer - we can't put her in kennels for a long period, so might be looking for friends and/or family to help out.  Watch this space....


On a different track completely (the staying in Bath one!), we went down to our allotment with some soil for a to-be-built raised bed.  Picked some chard, got given some marrows and cooking apples, admired the progress of our crops, chatted to our allotment neighbours, enjoyed the view...


We were very shocked to hear today of the death last Saturday of Ruan, the son of our friends Bill & Patsi.  We don't know the details yet, but it is so sad - he is their second son who has died (Eldon died a few years ago). Ruan's funeral is on Thursday. Here is a sunflower I saw on my walk with Bella today as a mark of our condolences. 

On our walk we managed to avoid getting rained on,

 saw lots of tall umbellifers,

 and a snazzy sports car!

Came home to find one of our neighbours' five Russian Blue cats asleep in our front garden (Bella did not spot it!).

We have passed 10,000 page views of the blog today.  Thanks to all our readers.