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  Well, this is vexing. I wrote this post and pressed the buttons and sat back as it loaded. I had added (Part 1) to the title, but when I switched on to write Part 2 I tried to link it to Part 1 and found it wasn't there. This means that, for the first time in 72 days I have failed to post.
  I am not happy. Ah well…
  It was a day off today, and instead of making me drive to a distant tourist spot Julia allowed me to relax with a short trip to the Mencap garden.
  We managed to fit in a Harvester Unlimited Breakfast on the way – so it wasn't an entirely bad start.
  At the garden, instead of making me walk round and look at things, and probably enjoy myself, she allowed me to do a number of jobs including refilling bug boxes (using hollow stems from the scabious we'd cut back a couple of months ago) and putting some bird boxes together.
  I fear I may have seemed a little ungrateful for the opportunity to spend our day off working for an organisation that won't allow me to volunteer officially. (For those of you new to the story I'm not allowed to volunteer to work with my wife, as I've been doing for the last five years, because of "conflict of interests".)
  We had a fig each after that, and I took some photos of the vine leaves.
  It wasn't one of my better days, though building nest boxes is always a good thing to do. So is eating fresh figs.
  After that, we returned home for a cup of tea. I downloaded photos and, whilst snoozing happily in my chair, dreamed of Derbyshire.
  At that point Julia demonstrated the depths of depravity to which a wife can stoop, waking me up to remind me I'd said I'd give her a lift to Wilkos to buy paint for nest boxes. Obviously I'd meant I'd give her a lift if I wasn't asleep and it wasn't too close to Pointless. I don't ask much from life and a snooze and a TV quiz seem quite modest requirements. So does freedom from being woken up to go shopping.
  We went to Arnold, and I took some photos from the rooftop car parks at Wilkos and ASDA (who are currently renovating their car park). They aren't great photos, but they didn't offer much in the way of scenery. The main theme is Rain, with a secondary motif of More Rain.
  This entry was posted in Gardening, Green Care and tagged birds boxes, bug hotel, car park, figs, leaves autumn colour, nest boxes, photographs, rain, scabious, shopping, snooze on October 12, 2017 by quercuscommunity.