All this rain has been good for one thing. The veg patch.

Here is today's offering:
Purple Sprouting Broccoli
Greek Squask
Kohlrabi
Spinach
Broad Beans
Mach Climbing Beans
Peas
Raddish
Carrots
strawberries

I got that wrong.

Jon and Amanda are off to Glastonbury, without me.

No dogs allowed.

But I am not bothered because I get two new people to come and look after me and take me for long walks and spoil me. And it won't matter if it rains and gets really grim. Like last time.

Hah.

It's a hot, muggy evening here right now. we're all feeling restless.

Off to Glastonbury in 5 days time.

What's in a name?

Meet Peter. This weekend we all went to Peter's first birthday and wiccaning party.

If you are wondering what a wiccaning is, here's what wikipedia thinks:

A Wiccaning, analogous to a Christening for an infant, is the presenting of an infant to the God and Goddess for protection.

And, after experiencing my first wiccaning, here's what I think a wiccaning is:

A made-up ceremony in a back garden, involving a broomstick, a sword, mead, cake and a phallic pinata.

Pete took it all in his stride, lots of people dropped cake which I ate and then we all went across the road to the community centre for a rather-more-traditional knees-up.

Fun in the forest

One of the best things about Amanda's job is promoting new mountainbike trails.

This is the newest trail in Wales. It opened last Thursday.

It's in Brechfa forest and is called the Derwen trail.

Here is Amanda on the inaugural ride. It's graded green, which means that it's very good for novice riders like Amanda.

wild river

Follow the narrow, twisty lane that winds past our garden through the pixie woodlands, up an enchanted valley and along a bubbling brook.

Since we moved here 8 months ago, we've been wondering if there are any good swimming holes on the river.

Today we found one!

After a 20 minute scramble off the path, across the bank and under some fallen trees, we followed the stream to a big waterfall with a perfect plunge pool underneath.

Just one problem: the only way in is a leap off a big rock. And the only way out is over the next waterfall.

This is going to take some planning ...

Big trees

Massive Giant Redwood trees in our garden.

Jon found this website that lists places in the UK where you can find other trees like these.

They are very tall and very old.