Mrs Cholmondeley
She's a beauty I think, this gorgeous lavender blue clematis veined with mauve. There's so much to see in the garden at the moment, but not much work being done apart from watering the greenhouse - this will have to change as Helen has just phoned me to ask about taking part in our village open gardens day and of course I said yes...then panicked.

You would have laughed if you'd seen me hanging washing out this morning wearing my usual scruffy old jeans with a pair of shiny cream stilettoed sling backs...ever so slightly incongruous and not a look I'd generally recommend (Trinny and Susannah would be horrified!), but it's number 2 son's wedding on Friday and I want to make sure my killer heels are slightly less murderous by then!