I’m doing a lot of gardening at the moment. It’s going well, but my writing brain seems to have stopped working. I’ve no idea what I am going to write here this week, so I’ve started with the picture. A medlar flower. The medlar tree is an important part of the structure of the garden, growing next to a turn in the path. It flowers prettily, and of course it produces medlars. These strange looking fruit make a very interesting jelly which we have with our porridge. At the moment we’ve run out, but that has a value. Scarcity has a value. As my son Sam said the other day, it makes you appreciate it more when you can’t have it all the time.

I think that’s about it for this week. Except to say the angelica is now 1.8 metres tall – .4 metres in a week. In contrast the sacred tree has grown .04 metres. The mathematicians among you will understand this but if I say that the angelica has grown over a foot in a week maybe you’ll get the idea!