Flooring

Our joiner, Gary, started work on the floor yesterday, and continued this morning. He's working on it 'out of hours', as he's in charge of childcare during office hours. Works fine for us, although it has meant that the kitchen is a bit unusable during the day. Never mind: he's got on well, and should be finished tomorrow afternoon.

We were planning to do some of the finishing things in the kitchen today/tomorrow (gloss painting, shelf, things like that), but it's a bit tricky with the floor going down. Terrible shame; we've had to get out into the garden instead.

I finished planting the daffs, in clumps in the copse, and then around the lilac and clematises on the opposite side of the garden. The latter was just the last 40-odd bulbs, mainly 'Mando' and a mix of jonquilla (good scent, and multiple flowers per stem). Meanwhile, Liz finished the puschkinia swathe in the copse, and then pitched in with daffs. Lastly, we put 45 tulips (Shirley, and Attila') in the nursery bed (the long rectangular bed in the veg garden) for cut flowers. Yes, because there wasn't anywhere else to put them. We've still got a hundred Anemone blanda and some more narcissi 'Paperwhite' to go, which hopefully will be done tomorrow.