A day of two gardens

A gorgeous sunny day again, so out in the garden doing stuff. Planting things into the area near the new pond, such as native plants, and cornflowers, and popping in a few bulbs for next spring. Lorraine removing yet more bucketloads of pebbles from the beds, which I poured on one side of the pond. It's all a big project.

Went off in the late afternoon to Beth and James, and sat in their garden. It makes me very happy to see Beth in this phase of her life, and how she and James are getting used to their beautiful garden and their big koi pond which it turns out has frogs too, and loving their frisky little tabby called Micky, still zooming about indoors but soon to be released. 

Beth made us a delicious salad and chicken, which we ate outside. Then inside, and had the Eurovision Song Contest on in the background, which I quite enjoyed. It is best to watch stuff like this with Beth. I predicted the winner too. Noted a prominent poet on Facebook renounced the joys of Eurovision this year because of Israel's actions in Gaza. Interesting that this festival of camp is thought so culturally important, that turning off your telly is seen as a powerful act of resistance to let your friends know about. There was tension around the Israel song, apparently some booing and others cheering, and a pro Palestine march outside the venue in Sweden. Apparently the Dutch contestant was banned at short notice for venting about Israel. The UK act, an enjoyable homoerotic boxing themed performance with a faintly discernible tune, was performed with gusto, but picked up few points. Later the public vote awarded the UK zero points, another Brexit dividend. 

Below two frogs in the pond, and Micky in a box.