This garden was for a rooftop, suiting an astronomer, and was called 'The Sky at Night'.During the day we kept bumping into BBC camera crews with Joe Swift and Alan Titchmarsh. They needed about a dozen staff (cameramen, sound, lights, director, producer, assistant to the producer etc etc) to shoot a 2 minute piece which would be inserted into the evening programme . So, we were kept back by staff holding ropes.
Everyone was very friendly and people would let us in to take photos by gardens. We found a table to sit at lunchtime, with our packed food, where a family from Goring were doing the same. The father worked in horticulture, so he told us. Also, we spoke to Muriel & friend from church who had come up on the same train as us.
This late Spring the weather has been wet and warm making all plants grow well. But some days are hopeless for outside tasks as it we've had warm rain on & off all day.
On the roof next door the gulls are raising 2 chicks. The odd magpie has tried to take the fledglings but the parent birds chase them off with loud cries. But they do make a mess on the cars, usually when they have just been washed.
