Our great friends Pat and Graham came early on 18th October to remove all the grass from within and around the area where the fruit cage is going to go up again next year. It took them most of the day as the turf cutter we'd hired was faulty, but Graham's expertise got it going and Pat and I wheelbarrowed the turves to near the big pond where I covered what was John's big vegetable patch with the cut pieces.
John had an extremely bad reaction to the tablet chemo after two weeks and was taken into hospital on 24th October. [He is still there, his condition is up and down all the time.]
My birthday celebrations have been postponed, but I've been absolutely showered with gifts and thank all the generous givers and senders herewith until I get around to writing properly.
Niece Uschi sent this bouquet from Germany,
and my lovely friend Pam in America sent me these ornaments.
We had several days of horrendously heavy rain, but the ducks coped very well.
Daughter Annie came to stay with me for almost a week. Carl and Val popped in as well, and between them they managed to make me feel so much better.
Annie is always looking to get good shots of pheasants for painting, unfortunately the two photos below are not very sharp.
On our walk with dog Ollie Annie spotted this pretty Parasol mushroom,
and I'd never seen that much water in the nature pond before:
On our return from the walk we found all the ducks [except Dotty] lying comfortably underneath shrubbery by the frog pond:
Pearl, my very best friend for almost 50 years, came for a brief visit yesterday morning.
There was even more water in the nature pond than on our previous walk .....
To finish for today a few photos of the ducks busying themselves in front of the sun lounge on a wet day.
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