After six months, some finches have finally found our niger feeder, just outside our kitchen window.

Magnificant though the carpets of bluebells are, I have to say, individually, the brighter, paler blue of the Spanish interloper, as seen in our garden, outshines its smaller, darker British cousin by a country mile.

Pear blossom:

Rhododendron:

Broom:

Gardener:

The newly named edifice is complete:

I was surprised to discover that Adam Hollioake had been declared bankrupt; and even more surprised to learn he had taken up a new sport:

www.adamhollioake.com.au/

First and second storey completed; third still to go.

Although this may look like a couple of pallets crudely nailed together, in reality it’s a complex structure akin to a medieval Siege Tower.