Digging for secrets

Not a whole lot going on today, in fact I've barely been out the house (& garden) but for a short walk at lunch time with Will.
I had a lovely treat this morning of some crochet and knitting books, a couple more herb plants, and some wool I admired on her blog from Pam. The herbs haven't made it into the ground yet, but all being well will do tomorrow. In fact after doing the jobs around the house I have spent most of my Ivy-sleeping time out in the garden. It's been an overcast day with bits of spotty rain, but moments of beautiful, warm sunshine. I loved feeling the drops of rain and heat of the sun on my back, and felt truly that winter has gone. I started digging another large bed to separate what will be the flower garden from the rest of the garden - about a quarter of the whole garden. If I manage to get this dug by the weekend we will be building wigwams and planting a few climbers that are waiting in their pots and looking sorry for themselves.
While I was at it I have also been on something of an obsessive path-hunt from the previous garden. I have thoroughly trawled the lawn, and have found a few feet of path beyond the existing one leading to the shed, and lots of remnants but nothing else complete. The neighbours did say that the farmer came in and tore it all up, it was so overgrown, and I guess when he did he took the path with him. I must say I was a little disappointed as it feels like uncovering a secret, finding out how the garden used to be, but really I wouldn't have chosen to put in concrete paths myself, so all's well that ends well.
I made a big pot of carrot and cauliflower soup for lunch as I bought a sack of carrots from the greengrocer in Garnant at the weekend. That simmered away while I was out digging and we had it with pancakes - I made extra as they are a handy food for Ivy, I will freeze the rest for her and pop them in the toaster as and when. She had pancakes with miso, cauliflower and broccoli for lunch.
That's about it for today. Will is outside shoveling up some of the gravel in the garden into one place. There is literally tonnes of it, and we really hate it. I am hoping we will have some freecycle takers once we've moved it all into one place, otherwise I'm not sure what we will do.
Will took a rather funny photo while I was out in the garden - unfortunately seconds after this was taken Ivy started bawling, I think she was confused.