Monday 7 May

• One of the sad things about being an adult is how much of one's time is spent thinking about getting stuff dry! So this weekend has been a good one. I was working Friday evening so had the morning off and got the duvet and the sleeping bag I have open under my fleecy under-blanket to the laundrette and then dry on the rotary dryer. Saturday normal weekly wash and also dried on the rotary dryer. Yesterday, I did the coverlet and the fleecy under-blanker. Today I have 4 jumpers drying outside.
• Until the last 10 minutes when one person came with his washing, I was the only one in the laundrette. Once the current owners give up then I am sure it will become something else which will cause problems - but for me only once a year.
• Twice this week I came home and took a cup of herb tea and book outside in the garden and sat for a while. 
• Two hour ride on my bike on Saturday. Out of the house 8.45 but the tow path already busy with walkers, joggers and cyclists. Down to Victoria Park - both east and west bits. - then a detour round Wick Wood (lots of cow parsley/sweet Cecily with side of the path on the north).
• Rhubarb crumble again today.
• Found French marigolds in shop around the corner so got them and potted them into pots for deterring greenfly in the conservatory. Also got basil from the supermarket which I put in a bigger pot for the conservatory.
• I pulled up 3-corned leek yesterday. I've recently read, and my friend in Cardiff I was staying with last weekend confirmed, that it was very invasive. The patch was definitely spreading and there are clumps of it elsewhere in the garden. Still bulbs of it in the earth, but I am ready fot it to take a few years to get rid of.
• Wisteria is looking lovely along the fence. 
• Several butterflies in the garden today, but only seen 2 bees.