Close to Nature

We could have driven to the famous Bodnant Garden ...

but in late May and early June they sell tickets because so many people want to see the famous laburnum arch in full flower. Who wants to be in a crowded garden if you're looking for a peaceful place?

Following the removal of a cataract in May I was waiting for new spectacles to match my new eyesight. In the meantime - two months altogether - I was not allowed to drive, nor swim, nor do some of the other things that normally fill much of my time. I was allowed to blog in theory, except that hours of screen time gave me a headache, which I'd rather avoid. (It wasn't you I was avoiding!)

We looked around for fun things to do not too far from home. There's a laburnum arch in the walled garden inside Royden Park, near Hill Bark on the Wirral. Despite having grown up on the Wirral and going to Royden Park as a child, I had never gone into the walled garden. While the laburnum arch is smaller than the one at Bodnant, without any people underneath it to provide scale you can make believe it is as big as you want it to be, and what a glorious sight!

I also took advantage of a class teaching Makaton (a form of sign language) for use in worship at St Peter's at the Cross church in Chester. That was an interesting and worthwhile evening.

And in June, who can resist the lure of fresh strawberries? We went to Claremont Farm in Clatterbridge and picked our own. Nomnomnom ...

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