for his beltane birthday, we gave him...

...The Forced Root Vegetable Of Darkness, below, a hunk of space debris that landed in China yonks of centuries ago, and a fisheye from these chaps.

We skipped off on our won holiday weekend (Now With Added Hotel Pool).

To Leeds Castle, onetime dowager home of the widowed queens of England. Now the wellest of well-oiled heritage machines and, um, behind me somewhere.

And other places where we saw apple trees and that it is spring.

And we saw cows.

And a cockerel in a box saw us.

But we didn't see our fishies

Or our cats.

Cos they were at home.

And a jolly good time was had.