Picked a Richard Thompson song for today’s title because as you may of guessed by the title we have spent some time in the garden this morning. We were worried because rain was forecast and were determined to get some new plants planted before it rained. As it was we hardly had any rain in the end!

Later I collected my bike “Shadowfax”  from it’s loving service. All my bikes have been serviced recently because I have been clocking up the miles this year especially since lockdown. I have already ridden over 2,300 miles already this year! “Shadowfax” is really my work horse and the bike I ride to my Story Telling Gigs. I have had for almost 26 years so I am very fond of it. You never know I might write properly about one of my many cycling exploits in a future blog. Those exploits  have been  varied from long distance rides in different parts of Britain and Ireland, to the mountains of the Alps and the Pyrenees,  Sportives, as well as many social rides sampling coffee and cakes in Gloucestershire.

Yesterday’s History Quiz Answers

a) The last Plantagenet King was Richard the Third  (“A Horse, a horse………”)  b) Caractacus  (Also known as Caradoc or Caradog) was the rebel king captured by the Romans.  c) Peterloo was the massacre in 1819   d) Emily Davison was killed by the King’s Horse   e) Mary Anning was a palaeontologist

Today’s Quiz is all on gardens

a) What is another name for the Rowan Tree?   b) Charles Darwin described this carnivorous plant  “the most wonderful plant in the world” What is the name of this plant?   c)   What is the sacred flower of the Buddhist religion?  d) Which garden plant in the 17th century was exchanged as a form of currency?  e) The spice, saffron, comes from which flower?