I have never installed a new Apple Operating System without experiencing a consequent problem. Overnight I let Catalina in. It is not compatible with my scanner. I followed the directions to resolve the issue, but hit a brick wall. This will mean another call to Peacock Computers.
This morning Elizabeth came for coffee and stayed for lunch.
Jackie planted more bulbs in the New Bed
while Aaron reinforced the back of this with breeze blocks. At one corner Jackie had planted pansies and a fern in a pot with no back wedged against a larger one with no front.
Aaron reported that while he had been working on the wall Nugget had put in an appearance and breakfasted on disturbed worms. On the back drive our robin’s rival perched on our friend’s container of cuttings. By the time I had returned with my camera the newcomer had repaired to the
larch which forms the avian boundary fence as agreed by the two rivals. The interloper sang from this tree, but I couldn’t spot him.
The bright morning sunshine streaked shadows along the various paths including the
Heligan, where Jackie admired a campanula in the Cryptomeria Bed.
but uprooted one of the invasive white alliums from the gravel.
After lunch I rather snoozed over the Rugby World Cup quarter final match between Wales and South Africa, then wandered around the garden again.
Antirrhinums surprisingly still thrive beyond the avian boundary fence;
Less surprisingly, mushrooms emerge from a log left to encourage insect life;
and the bank of chrysanthemums glows gloriously.
Autumn leaves still linger on the Weeping Birch,
and those of the Parthenocissus brighten the shadows on the south fence.
The winter flowering clematis has announced the coming season,
While an earlier variety rests on a bed of Erigeron.
Mum in a million lets her hair down in the Rose Garden.
Nugget worked at making eye contact with his favourite perching owl.
This evening we dined on Jackie’s spicy piri-piri chicken; flavoursome savoury rice; and succulent lava beans and sweet potato ratatouille, with which she drank Hoegaarden and I finished the Fleurie.