3:15 project, update 17

A bit of a changeable weekend; spent several hours spinning, and a few hours doing a bit of work, but it was fine enough on Sunday to dry the laundry and do some work in the garden. The main effort went into the right-hand-side again, trying to uncover the door into the greenhouse which has been invaded by ivy...


Pictures 1 and 2, nothing to see. Pic 3 - not a great deal of change although all the lilies are now out... and the sesame plants on the left in the tray are going mad...


Picture 4: everything just growing away and becoming quite lush...

And new this week, picture 5: taken from the bottom of the garden by the greenhouse door, which I nearly unearthed last week! I got it clear enough to get into, anyway, and rescue a butterfly which had become trapped in there... As you can see, still quite a lot to do when viewed from this angle!

The herb bed has been attracting quite a lot of insect life because the marjoram and oregano are flowering;

They literally are heavy with bees...

and here's that rescue butterfly again - a Comma, or Polygonia c-album; one of the species which is making a comeback across England as the weather warms up; Dad spotted one in their garden in north Durham last year...

Some of the local fauna found alternative habitats.

Just as well I hadn't planted that up with anything this year, really...

Lots of spinning has been going on for the Tour de Fleece (Ravelry link), and a fair amount of knitting on Decimal - I've just been really lazy about formatting and uploading my pictures recently...!