Dodgy back prevents digging.

I haven't dug up the borage yet, my back has been painful since yesterday. Edward saw me struggling and offered to help with the shopping which, was very kind as he doesn't seem to have had a motive.

It's such a beautiful warm day I ought to be digging the borage and the plants I want to save. The gardening contractors will arrive any day now. I'm looking forward to having the garden cleared and regrassed with a new stone yard but I also feel a little sad that the garden I have known for the past twenty years is going to disappear - it's looked very shabby for years now and I shall be able to manage this one much better, it's just that I know every nook and cranny of this garden, it's the one my children grew up in and sometimes their old toys can still be unearthed.

I tasted the borage flowerheads, they are delicious - quite sweet and flowery tasting and will be good in salads.