Spent some of the day in the garden. I watched the blackbirds and thrushes pop in and out of the currant bushes. I thought it was time to pick the rest of the gooseberries and currants before they shrivelled/got eaten! Unfortunately, by the time I picked the whitecurrants - they’d already had some and most of the late redcurrants.

The birdies had eaten some goosegogs too but I managed to get a small box from one bush (this had been picked last month).

The gooseberries on the thornless bush had been eaten by the birdies (though there weren’t that many). The third bush, another thorny one, had goosegogs to be harvested. That was agony, and many scratches later, got a nice tub full. I can’t remember which is which - Whinham’s Industry & Hinnomaki Red - one has bigger berries.

Elsewhere in the garden, there are cobnuts forming. However, the leaves are fodder for caterpillars:

Slugs are having a party. So, I bought another slug trap. On the box, it said that it only needs topping up with beer every so often and no need to empty as the slugs will dissolve in the beer!

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