I'm thinking it might be time to put in a couple of potatoes to try and clean the soil up... it's been used as a cat toilet for a couple of years and it's gone rather sour. Nothing I plant there thrives, if indeed it sprouts at all, but the buddliea seems to love it.

I've been putting black sunflower seeds in the feeder again and my tits seem to have forgiven me.

I notice the three remaining daffodils are burgeoning, the tulips are a bit straggly but I'm sure they'll perk up, and I've managed to not kill a rose that needed removing from the fence we've got to replace.

LTS