Knackering drive to East Midlands Airport and back yesterday afternoon to pick up our John. Hottest day of the year so far, peaking at 24 degrees Celsius. Couldn’t find my shorts or my shades. The traffic coming back from the airport was bad. Four hour round trip.
Prior to that I’d dug up a load of turf from the wildflower meadow in readiness for random seed scattering today. Has to be random as that is what happens in nature innit. Plus it’s a mix of perhaps 20 different seeds so the distribution of plant types is going to be random anyway innit.
The act of removing the turf has lowered the level by an inch or more and I have decided to take advantage of the new topography by naming the strip the Central Valley. The wildflowers will grow in the plain that runs along the whole length of the valley. The valley has the lake at its head. Feels right.
Recorded 11 different birds around the garden yesterday: robin, wren, blackbird, blue tit, coal tit, great tit, dunnock, wood pigeon, sparrow, crow and yellow legged gull. This adds to the previously recorded chaffinch, magpie and goldfinch. Whether the Merlin app was getting confused by tits I’m not sure but I’m running with the list. The gull aside they have all been previously recorded so it is plausible that yesterday’s list is accurate and there was a real cacophony occurrin’. Even our Joe said he could hear it when I was chatting with him over WhatsApp.
Read in the news about BTS’ comeback tour. Arguably the world’s biggest boy band. Apaz. There are a couple of observations to be made here. Firstly I didn’t know they had broken up so I was somewhat nonplussed by the announcement of the comeback. Secondly I’d never heard of them anyway. Getting really out of touch here #oldfartsrus.
I, as usual, had the best gross in the golf but Coops edged it once handicaps were taken into consideration. I had a birdie on the 15th with a tee shot that pulled up a foot short of the pin. Our John made up the threeball. A weather front rolled by as we arrived at the ninth. The sky darkened but we cracked on and the rain eventually passed. Dinner afterwards in the Duke William.