There are some gardens that I come across whilst mapping that simply cry out to be featured in these Diary pages. There are two today, both located on an unadopted road (the householders have to pay for all road upkeep) in Gedling that I first walked on Wednesday 23 November on a truly dreadful day. The rain was interfering with the smartphone’s capacitative action, so I went back on last Sunday 27 November.

The first garden below is included simply because I found it sweet (and why not?):

The next seemed to epitomise water action. It was pouring down from above and even flowing in a culvert below, so it seemed only fair to have galleons in a pond as well: