Gardening again

Writing this morning. Another good day. Lorraine took the car for its MOT. Later we both time in the garden, in an interlude of sun. Mainly sweeping and tidying as I'm still being wary about my stomach muscles having picked up the tumble drier. In the afternoon had a pot of Early Gray tea with Joy and Jim next door. Finished Otherlands by Thomas Halliday. Jolly good travelling back through geological time to various points where the earth seems quite alien.

Hellebores in the garden. Apparently I read that the powdered root was documented by both Dioscorides and Pliny to treat melancholy, insanity, worms and induce vomiting. Apparently they are very toxic. However, a lovely winter plant in our Seaford garden.