A fork in the woad

Things we learned tonight:

• woad is a yellow-flowered European plant of the cabbage family. It was formerly widely grown in Britain as a source of blue dye, which was extracted from the leaves after they had been dried, powdered, and fermented,
• foam and form sound the same when Jo says them,
• Lucy was eating a hot cross bun when she realised it was time to meet us,
• Ellie will be running a marathon at the weekend in brand new shoes.... which are arriving by first class post on Friday (keep everything crossed for her),
• Sycamore saplings really don't like to be pulled up,
• there are far too many fork puns.

Tonight's mission was to clear lots of the comfrey from one of the flower beds and to completely clear one other area ready for a water feature / toad home.

There were plenty of wheelbarrows filled this evening and the new planter/compost heap definitely had a lot more in it than when we started. If you look at the before and after you can see that we did clear a lot even though it felt like there were still a few weeds that wanted to stay put. We also managed to fill a whole bag full of dandelions for Bleachy's rabbits / tortoises.

An hour of good physical labour and we all headed homewards for some nice warming dinners.... and probably a cup of tea or two!

Good work and more little projects at Wymering Manor coming soon. Watch this space.