I’ve been a fan of Crosby, Stills and Nash since I was at college over 50 years ago. Jane and I went to see them in Birmingham ten years ago and when the opportunity arose to see Graham Nash on tour I immediately booked a couple of tickets.
Helene and I stayed over in Nottingham with dinner at Mowgli before the concert.
It was an excellent gig and the band managed to recreate the harmonies of CS&N beautifully. Plenty of nostalgia for the old songs and some new tracks from his latest solo album.
Southwell Workhouse
On the way back from Nottingham we stopped at the Workhouse in Southwell. We had managed to wangle a couple of free National Trust tickets for entry so it was a cheap visit. Brunch in the café before a guided tour of the outside of the building followed by a wander around the different settings within the infirmary and workhouse itself. The building was used to house homeless families in its later history.
There was so much to see we were there for over 4 hours and had an enlightening visit.
Garden
At long last the Alicante tomatoes have started to ripen and like a lot of things in the garden I now have a glut of them.
To use some of them up before they go rotten I’ve made a tomato and basil soup and put bags of it into the freezer, ready for the winter months.
This patch of the garden by the side of the garage had become a dumping ground for bits of wood, including old fence posts. It was overgrown with ivy so for the past couple of weeks I’ve been clearing it, shredding all the twigs I had dumped there and taking the rotten wood to the tip.
A little bit more work and I shall get landscapers to turf the area to match the grass that runs alongside the drive.
It has only taken me ten years to reach this point but I suppose a garden is never finished.
