She-ele, you might. Find this of interest Samuel Johson (mr dictionary), married a widow with 2 daughters from OH's mother's family ( the very Englsh side of his family) , his dad's side were the  Scots

Hi Laney, Sorry about your sore feet. I hope whatever caused it was at least fun or interesting. 

Deb I was just having a look back at the pics of yours and Nics gardens!

Your garden is my type of garden - mysterious and filled with lots of lovely things.

We would find it difficult to have that sort of garden over here - our soil (for soil read sand) is just too poor.  That is the one thing I miss about living back in the mountains ..... our cold weather deciduous garden filled with weeping cherries (lucky Nic) rhodos and azaleas - plus all the Japanese maples.

My goodness Flashie, that crying couple need to dry their tears and work a bit harder. I know they are crying from exhaustion but they  have not changed their work ethic from day one even though they have warning after warning. 

Hi Prim 

Just the usual (you know) but it was still fun and interesting 

Feet up now with coffee in hand - eases some of the aches lol

Hmmmm Wonders if Laney has been doing the  Can can today 😀

I would have (if I could have) Deb but not in the same manner of dress as Prim's Mum imagined 

Laney a lot of things in my garden self seed, unfortunately I ave lost a Lo of old plants over the past few years with the extreme sun that we now seem to get. One if my favourites is a really old aquilegia or granny's bonnets, (it's an old red/ yellow variety) I keep a close on those because I don't want to lose them.. The new varieties din't seem to self seed. They flower once and die

LOL Laney

another old self seeding one that I have and don't see around much is love-in-a-mist. They're not flowering yet, but are on the wAy

She's that sort of a girl, Deb (can do anything that's asked of her) 

We went for a bike ride today and saw our family of wood ducks again. I can't remember if I told you about them  - mum and dad and 11 babies, we had to stop for them while they crossed the road to our local wetland a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, we spotted them again today; the ducklings have grown a bit and are all  still alive and kicking, and mumma duck still doesn't like us or our bikes - she ran at as head stretched out to peck as we rode past.