Looks like rain...

June has seen a cooling in the weather - today was overcast and a bit muggy but a good day to be doing a bit of gardening.  I am busy propagating some new purple basil plants from the one I originally purchased.  These will not last the winter but it is a pretty colour and easy to break a bit off and root in water.  

I spend the morning having a tidy up.  The osteospurmum and gazania are coming to the end of their flowering period and I usually make the mistake of not cutting the osteospurmum back hard enough and they get leggy and woody.  I am also waiting for the wild poppies and the nigella to set seed and then I can pull out the spent plants.

We are concerned about Charlie - he is out of sorts.  Having had Minnie poorly, now it is Charlie's turn.  He isn't eating which is a sure sign something is wrong and he is very vocal - we aren't sure whether maybe he has a bladder or a bowel issue - he was very vocal as a kitten when he had cystitis.  Poor baby we keep following him trying to witness him going to the loo - we have failed so far.  We are trying to get him to eat and have given him a slug of olive oil to help things on their way. 

We went for an early supper.  I am trying to make room in the freezer so we took out some pork for souvlaki tomorrow and a piece of sirloin steak which was part of a barbeque pack we got from Naz and which was a bit too fatty for my liking.  I decided to use this in a beef stir-fry and got rid of most of the fat as a result.  We had a quick trip to the supermarket mid morning.  Strange to be able to go in and choose for ourselves whether or not we wore masks.  I for one am not sorry this is no longer a requirement because today it was certainly very muggy today and so very unpleasant if you were forced to wear a mask.

It looked like it was going to rain this evening.  I don't know if it did but it was certainly very wet overnight and so for once I didn't need to do any watering.  There was a lot of noise around and about - someone somewhere was having a celebration which was accompanied by fireworks and what sounded like gunshots.  

We have been mesmerised by the first cricket test - day two today - guess what we will be doing tomorrow?