Oh, today has not been good.  The pouring rain all morning didn’t help.

I decided to do an experiment – I wanted to film one of our garden poppies coming out of their buds because every time we turn our backs, one unfolds and appears. They are very beautiful too.

I had lots of memory on my phone and I set it to take time-lapse photos all morning on my makeshift stand – between three glass balls and prayed no one would phone me (the phone vibrates!)  Not ideal, I know, but it did the job.  I even put my headtorch light on the buds to get a better result.

I love taking photos of the poppies and was very hopeful. Six hours later, not one poppy bud had come out and my phone ran out of battery.  I ditched the long and very boring film feeling very disheartened.

All I wanted was something a bit more animated but have now given up.  I’m not doing that again.

But, as Daisy said, when I whinged on the phone as to the fact that I now had nothing for today’s blog, “all anyone wants to really see is the cat!”  So here you are.

(Oh yes, I did have one win today. I had forgotten – I got a collar on ‘Bert and even managed to give him some painkillers.)