<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/beehive-testapr19-960x1280.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5571" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/beehive-testapr19-960x1280-150x200.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="200" /></a>When working in the garden, as with all things, I need to plan. The vegetable plot has a plan for my 2019 planting and I've started a plan of one corner of the flower beds which has become a bit of a mess. I've decided where the bee hive will go once I've been on my training day at <a href="https://www.thorne.co.uk/index.php?route=common/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Thorne's</a> in mid May and placed an old hive Jane and I bought many years ago as a garden ornament. The real hive will fit well here.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/lucy-rose-apr19-1280x960.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5574" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/lucy-rose-apr19-1280x960-200x150.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>Mary and I spent a couple of days in London with Richard and Nicola. We visited Tate Modern where we toured the <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/cc-land-exhibition-pierre-bonnard-colour-memory" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pierre Bonnard</a> exhibition but I wasn't impressed by this post impressionist painter and the following day we went to the Hayward gallery to see the <a href="https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/hayward-gallery-art/diane-arbus-beginning" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Diane Arbus</a> photography exhibition. Her photographs were intriguing with each one leaving many questions hanging in the air. Who were these people? Why were they there? What were they thinking? Etc.

The highlight of the London visit was the <a href="https://youtu.be/1o84y-5-cO0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lucy Rose</a> (singer/songwriter) concert at Union Chapel. She exceeded my expectations - with a voice similar to Joni Mitchel and a beautiful melancholy style of music.

No sooner were we home from London than we were packing our bags to drive north to stay with dearest friends, Tony and Jude, in the Scottish Highlands. Although the sun did shine over the weekend there was a real bite in the wind and we had to wrap up warm as we walked the beach at <a href="https://www.visitscotland.com/info/towns-villages/findhorn-p237641" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Findhorn</a>, touring the <a href="https://www.themacallan.com/en/distillery" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Macallan</a> distillery and alongside the river at <a href="https://www.logie.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Logie Steading</a>.

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After saying our sad farewells to Tony and Jude we headed south to stay at the <a href="https://www.exploremiddletonhall.co.uk/comein-boathouse.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Boathouse</a> at Middleton Hall near Belford, Northumberland. More on this later...