Jonathan: Here’s Denise grading some of this year’s fleeces from our Hebridean sheep.  Visitors coming into the garden are clearly bemused: they’ve seen lambing on TV, shearing perhaps for real, but clearly very few people get to see this aspect of working with sheep and wool.

And even fewer have seen wool grading being done in the midst of such chaos: this part of the garden is still something of a building site, though clearly some visitors see past that: one German lady today said that we had ‘ein klein stück Paradis!’ – which surely doesn’t need translation.