Primroses out . .

. . on the kind of bank where the wild thyme would grow -- nibbled by sheep, etc. Global warming and all that. Also some red campion, but that could be left over from the early summer, I guess.

What did I see on my lonely walk? Plenty of sloes; a tree so laden with wild damsons that it was blue rather than green (but I've got enough jam from last year). You can make Damson Cheese but I can't put my hands on the ancient copy of Country Living that has it in. I saw water cress in the dewponds, and one can eat it if there's an *r* in the month, but I don't fancy that type with the long leaves. I want round leaves like the expensive ones in the shops. However, my own, in my ditch, was put there by me from a round-leaved bit with roots and now it's all long leaves. Must be a reversion. I will look this up and fill it in. From the top of the downs I saw a rainbow over Swindon and a blackbird against the rainbow. I found a woodpigeon's broken eggshell at the mouth of a badger hole, and so on and so forth. Nothing spesh. The day job is killing me.