Yes, another trip to Hyde Hall!  Well, might as well, I get free entry for me & a guest with my RHS membership!  It's makes a good day out, we take a packed lunch, lovely flowers, lots of photo opportunities...

gatekeeper butterfly

I'm reading "In the Dolphin's Wake" by Harry Bucknall at the moment but I'm not really getting it.  He's travelling from Venice through Greece by whatever means he can.  I've only read 70 pages so far.  He just doesn't seem to be enjoying it.  And neither am I. 

Trouble is, I recently reread Patrick Leigh Fermor's books on his travels in Roumeli and the Mani regions, so I've been spoilt! 

PLF's love for travelling and Greece just wafts off the pages, his writing is so soothing and mesmeric.  I think Harry's just doing it for the money.

However, I will persevere.  He's just arrived in Crete, how can one not enjoy Crete!

(4 photos of Crete by west-crete.com)