Where have all, the children gone?

The children have all gone to Nice!  The Children's Mother and me have been abandoned to our own devices for a week.

It's very quiet.  Too quiet!  You don't half miss them when they are gone.....

Into our void the rain has fallen to add to our misery. 

The Hawthorn,  Crategus  monogyna  blossom has just burst this week and most of the trees are laden with flower but today the blossom is doing it's best to cope with the wet.

Beside the burn at the cottage there are large and increasing clumps of  Bugle,  Ajuga reptans