Thursday 11 June
Worked from home today and despite getting much done the day felt quite flat. Largely, I feel, this was due to the all-day heavy cloud cover and the constant threat of rain, which never came.
You can be forgiven for thinking that the lockdown is not in place at the moment. I went to the local Coop supermarket with Adora first thing and the roads were busy-ish. Then you reach the shop and there is an assistant on the door offering you hand gel and wiping down the handles of the baskets.
On the walk this evening I found this little smidge of colour on the fringes of the cultivated fields. Another thing that wasn’t apparent to me yesterday but grabbed my eye today.
The Common Fumitory is part of the poppy family and in the 1600s was rubbed into the eyes to improve vision and resolve eye illness. Into the 20th century it was still being used as a herbal remedy to treat conjunctivitis. How did they know that it could help way back then?
Another Mabel moment this evening when I had to remove a piece of twig that had got lodged in her teeth. It was exactly a week ago that we had the fruit & nut incident.
The Bald Birder 