Monday 23 April

• On Sunday 15 April to Leytonstone Green Drinks at the Walnut Tree. Only Maureen and Rosemarie there, both of whom I know. (I tried an elderflower cider, which was rather odd tasting!).
• Everything has now got very green. One outdoor pot plant with a dead-looking plant sprouted several inches new growth overnight!
• A few of my amaryllis showing green leaves, so potted up all 11, and also 2 begonias.
• I am not very good at sawing, but yesterday slowly worked my way through a large log rescued from the Lea, so made two that will fit in stove.
• National Trust magazine came in compostible wrapper. Read about this after I had put it in kitchen pedal bin, but able to rescue it and put it in the compost bucket. Hope it breaks down faster than the lavatory paper wrappers!
• Got a scabious from Tesco. Supposed to be perennial, but this is third with no sign of the ones from the previous 2 years having survived.
• My friend Beate had some logs to be sawn up for woodburner but has had to leave them as they have stag beetle larva.
• Yesterday cycling to help out at canoe club at sprint races when Lesley cycling to yoga in Jubilee Park caught up with me and said, "I thought it was you. No one else I know cycles so loaded up!"
• Saw lots of butterflies yesterday. Two days running a pair of great tits were looking for insects on the wisteria, the bay and the buckthorn.
• Garden has a lot of honesty in flower, forget-me-nots and primulas. 
• Daffodils over so now watering with fertiliser to encourage flowering next year.