How does your garden grow?

I believe the football world cup begins officially today. I hope many boycott it for all sorts of reasons.

I've sent a stroppy email to Sarah Raven complaining about the dahlia fiasco. Sadly my email is not as erudite as the one I composed in the middle of the night. That one contained the word retribution amongst others. They foolishly sent me a 'How did we do? survey too. "* Not very well."

I am sitting at my desk in the study and freezing to death. Slight exaggeration perhaps but jolly cold. Have a yearning to re-read Three Men in a Boat. It's probably here on a shelf somewhere.

It's been wet, wet, wet this morning. No sign yet of it drying up.

Would you like a tour of the garden? It's looking very pretty at the moment. Or it was before the rains began.

Complete with empty compost bag.

My expensive 'daisies'.

The fig tree is gradually taking over.

A quick count and I think I have 5 rambling roses, 5 climbing roses, and 19 shrub roses. No, 20, there's one on the other side too.