Marion went off for her volunteering at the charity shop and Mal and I packed up ready to return home.
On the way back we stopped at Penn Woods. Ellie has been sneezing a lot and the previous day one of her eyes was running really badly. It started again in the woods, so we didn’t stay as long as planned. She obviously has some sort of allergy, pollen levels are very high so I am guessing it is doggy hay fever. Hopefully it will only be in this area.
Further on in the drive we thought about having lunch somewhere. We decided on Brogdale, where they have the National Fruit Collection, as we haven’t been there for a long long time. We hadn’t realised quite how long as the sat nav took us through the ugliest largest new estate I have seen. This was all open countryside the last time we were here. When eventually we reached Brogdale the road was closed up to it! We gave up, stopped at a supermarket to get some fresh milk and salad and came home for lunch.
One of my hanging baskets had completely dried up, not sure if I can rescue the fuchsias in it but everything else seems to have coped, even my courgettes and tomatoes.
Mal of course went to the allotment to water and collect fruit and beans for dinner.
Loads of strawberries, we had raspberries and rhubarb as well.
What a very disappointing England game. We turned off at half time. I don’t think I have ever done that before.