Something pleasant because we all need it - Good Morning everyone from my quiet garden in Sussex! This is a begonia that came with me from Catford a couple of years ago. Had it for years and this is the first year it's flowered properly; the blue pot it's in came from a skip.

No Christmas Tree for me this year. This pic is from two years ago at the Foundling Museum in central London. The figure in front is Trumpet Boy, by Yinka Shonibare.

£46m of public money for a statue of HM Elizabeth? Let her excessively rich sons pay for the damned thing. And to think there are people who have to choose to eat or heat because they can't afford both.

From a Hungarian friend in Budapest:

A hollyhock in my garden, grown from seed I collected in the village of Limpsfield in Surrey.