Good to be back gardening at the music school a couple of times a week. Their bee hives are buzzing. The gardens have been designed and maintained by my friend Jif over several decades but the beekeeper is Ashley who as it happens is one of my neighbours at the allotment.

 The main school building was once a grand house and certain facets of the original garden still exist. For example the white haze of Blackthorn dates from an earlier era- possibly a hedge run wild and become a thicket? All those flowers are manna for the bees...