Entertaining this evening

Tonight we are having some friends over for a social evening so we are heading out early to get some nice nibbles in.  When I say early I mean as soon as is sufficiently decent an hour to get himself out of bed.  He thinks nothing of waking me at six every morning but I wouldn't dream of waking him up if we weren't having company.  He suggested 8.30...  No flipping chance.  I am not standing in a supermarket queue fighting hordes of weekend shoppers. It will be 7.30 this morning.  He can sleep all day tomorrow if he wants to.
I spent ages down the secret garden yesterday, I planted all manner of packets of new and old seed to see if any of it will sprout.  The soil down there is amazing and the rain overnight was very welcome. In truth I am not too bothered about growing veggies down there as I think I will fight a losing battle with the pigeons. I plan to use it more for cuttings of my garden shrubs.  I might see if I can grow enough to make it worth having a sale of plants next year at a local car boot sale. I've hundreds of plant pots in my greenhouse and this time next year everything will have rooted nicely. The variegated privet that I trimmed earlier this year is looking fantastic and I stuck all the trimmings into the soil around the garden. They all rooted beautifully and I gave some of them to my friend Jayne for her 'new build house garden'. I intend to move them down to the secret garden to grow on for next year.. Watch this space.

Look how much the variegated privet has grown so far this year

Good job we covered the table. Look at the pool of water on it

It's looking very lush and green at the moment. Lovely rain thank you.