Did someone have a baby then? & Garden fayre beats pond repair

At last the Royal baby was born and the proud parents are now all over the newspapers showing off their charge.  Of course now its a guessing game of what the new prince is going to be called here's a list of the latest odds  There is however one Russian who is not happy and predicts the baby will "suck Russia's blood" - - - a daunting prospect for him.  Living in the past or what!

Here's a happy ending story, for a change, where pulling together, or more to the point pushing helped a woman who slipped and fell down the gap between the train and platform in Japan.  Due to the design of the train guards and commuters worked together to push the train away from the platform, making the gap larger so that the woman could be rescued.

A great story from the BBC about how to get to Mars and back a well put together story lots of graphics and comments about the various challenges.  It will happen one day I guess but I really have to ask - - - Why?

Between the frequent rain showers thunder and lightening we ventured into the garden yesterday a number of times.  Having initially written off the thought of rescuing the "huge" pond plant that had fallen off its ledge into the pond I relented.  After cutting off all the foliage I dragged it from the pond and managed to get it out of the basket it sat in.
I then remembered we didn't pull it completely out in March to cut off the excess roots which had formed the previous year. That probably was a reason it flopped into the pond!
I eventually got it out of the basket and trimmed it down in size by about a third before returning it to the basket and then the pond.

So here it is back in the pond.  There are 2 plants in the basket the lilly is on the left and a bullrush on the right.

I had strict instructions to save all the lilly blooms and here they are.

Sally's efforts in the garden yesterday were directed towards her sweet pea towers, she had a merry time clipping off the blooms in an effort to encourage more to grow, here's the result of one excursion between the showers.

Hunting out a few young courgettes for dinner she came across the large one which had escaped her previous forays

Finally - - - Its back on the shifts tomorrow at the "Salt Mine" I wonder what changes have taken place in my 2 week absence!  - - - hey ho!
Enjoy the day  

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