Editor's blog

Visited a lovely garden the other day – Fullers Mill at West Stow. You enter along a woodland track to get there so it’s not immediately obvious that it’s there when you drive through this village known for its Anglo Saxon settlement. But with its water features, rich, international array of plants and shrubs (plus towering trees) it really is a beautiful, relaxing spot and is well worth seeking out if you are in the Bury St Edmunds area. And if you want to get a real flavour of the place I’ve written about it for our next (August) issue and there will be lots of pictures to show off its summer glory.

It was a throwaway remark on one of those fairly tiresome radio phone-ins but it probably would catch the attention of the public. Callers were debating cruelty to animals when someone suggested an Animals In Need Day on the BBC, rather like the Children In Need Day held every November. There’s a limit to these things but I think it would work.

Experienced our first flash flood here in Culford yesterday. For a few minutes rainwater puddles turned into pools and threatened to come over our doorstep and flow under our garage door. Having watched those scenes last year of towns and villages being flooded it gave us just a hint of the concerns those people must have faced