<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/poppies@castlemay16.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3380" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/poppies@castlemay16-300x225.jpg" alt="poppies@castle(may16)" width="300" height="225" /></a>One of the advantages of volunteering at Lincoln Castle is I get to see the events before they're "live". Today it was the poppy cascade that is touring the country in different venues. The official opening is next weekend so it isn't quite finished.

As usual I was at the entrance to "Walking the Walls" alongside a new volunteer. He was young and had all the charisma of plankton. He didn't smile at visitors, didn't really explain the audio guides and hardly communicated with anyone. Maybe I was like that when I just left school but I don't think so. His desire was to get a job, any job, just so long as it wasn't in fast food. I'm not sure that counts as aspirational.

I spent this afternoon getting back into the garden - strimming and mowing the lawn and then weeding the raised beds and part of the vegetable plot. There is a lot more to be done but I will get there eventually and then start all over again...