Wednesday and an unusual day, I spent the morning with the Elders group and then the afternoon in the garden. The morning with the Elders was a stimulating time and I am looking forward to meeting them in person in August. In the afternoon I put some pots of blue poppies into the garden, took more photographs and got the garden guy to clear out some of the beds.
Iris in the light 
First foxglove 
Sea Holly flowers
I take a coffee break and sit on the patio and realise that the new parasol has brought a new phenomenon to the garden experience in the sunshine.
At the end of the afternoon we decide to get a take away as a midweek treat, so I order from our usual place in the knowledge that it will take at least an hour to deliver, giving me time to train. Order in, I get into my kit and go to the garage to row. As I start out a friend rings on her way back from a work assignment and then after 20 minutes my partner comes in and tells me that the Indian meal has arrived. This is unheard of, such speedily delivery has never happened before. I end both my call and my session to go and eat.
Post Indian meal I watch some crap TV and then have the delight of the Great British Sewing Bee, where I am introduced to the wonders of traditional Oxford Bags. I am quite taken by them but did not realise how much at the time. I while away the rest of the evening before collapsing into bed.
Thursday and this was going to be a full day so I am up early and shower. I open my last remaining stock of CK one and make a mental note to put it on my to get list. I attempt to make breakfast but get interrupted, so I abandoned any hope of it and prepare for my early start meeting. The meeting starts on time and work our way through a solid agenda. At about the mid point of the meeting I got distracted and research Oxford Bags and found to my delight that a certain company make them the traditional way. So many fabrics to choose from but I am taken by the a heavy fabric version and before I know it I am the proud owner of a pair of Oxford Bags from Some Like It Holy Vintage Reproduction Clothing. I get back to the meeting, feeling fashionable. The meeting comes to an end giving me half an hour before my next meeting so its a quick lunch adn back in front of the screen to host the penultimate Open Forum. It is an intense session with people saying and exploring some really important things. At the end of the session my co host and I have a quick debrief and then we move on. I package up the two gifts that we are sending to the two most consistent attendees of the Open Forum as a recognition of their contribution. I trot over to the post office and post my parcels off and return home plant up a peace offering of sun flower seedlings and to wonder my garden thinking and noticing the flowers of the day.
New peony flowers 
Peony centre 
First pink poppy
A Japanese corner 
The first cosmos
Its Thursday so its tuna pasta for tea followed by the treat of a Magnum ice cream. Whilst enjoying this a friend calls from the depths of a traffic back up on the way back from a work assignment. We talk about the work issues that have arisen and then generally about the pains of traffic back ups and all that it entails. My partner gets on with her singing lesson while I catch up with the blog. I find myself preoccupied as tomorrow is the day I give a blood sample before my oncology appointment on Tuesday. It will be an early start and then it will be onto a work meeting later in the day.
