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I’m glad you enjoyed the puzzles @Ergates and I’ve written quite a few designed for my niece to do/possibly with some help, so some groups are simple and others a bit more cryptic. I’ll post one now and then for anyone who fancies trying more.If you like this sort of word puzzle I recommend...

A strange day here, but a bit like the pics ... sunny with drizzle until 3pm then a brief thunderstorm then sun then another thunderstorm at 6pm. Now another storm is coming so heavy rain on the way. I don't remember heavy rain here for a long time.

Finished filling in the new border I hope, it's going to sink a bit but by how much . It's been a hard graft moving the soil around but I am very pleased with the quality of the soil ( Loam) I saved going back years. It's had a dressing of rotten woodchip on top. I can start doing other things...

Food is currently being taken from the feeding station and a hoggy must have had a quick nap in the sleeping box but decided not to stay!

Not only plants which have to surrender to Mother Nature but humans and wildlife too. Just as an aside, I wonder why it is "Mother" nature always to blame? Bit sexist particularly as the weather over the last 5 decades has proved somewhat contrary............I'm sure Mother Nature would like...

That sounds like a great idea! Hope you will go to some future meetings, @Michael Hewett. I’ve joined a couple of women’s groups in our village, a similar arrangement with a speaker, coffee and cake, or afternoon tea, and time to have a chat with some interesting people. I really look forward to...

If you are ever down in Cornwall they have bladdernut in Burncoose Gardens. Always a lovely place to visit with mature shrubs and trees - free entry - and a very good shrub nursery.