Each evening as it get’s dark I hear the geese flying overhead and love to listen to their melancholy calls. You can just about see them in this pic. As the hour has gone back it’s now dark at four thirty. I love autumn but the long dark evenings can be depressing and leave …
I have to say, it’s certainly been a week of firsts for me. Some of them good…..some certainly not so good! As some of you may remember, I signed up as a volunteer months ago with the Cinnamon Trust This is a wonderful organisation where the pets of elderly people are cared for while they are …
And so it begins. After the tree debacle I put my thinking cap on and began to develop the bones of my new back garden. I was sick of looking at the dust bath so I decided to get stuck in now rather than waiting for spring. I started by putting the stone circle that …
A few weeks ago all hell broke loose, and it’s taken me about that long to get over it. It all began when we had to have this aging 60 foot Leylandii tree taken down as it was dying and was beginning to sway in a rather alarming manner. A nice chap was hired who …
An ancient rabbit brought into the rescue Now…..I’m not usually the type of girl that likes to boast, but this week I’m feeling rather proud of myself. Y’see I’ve finally learnt to speak dove. Now you may think dove is similar to pigeon, woodpigeon and collared dove, but let me assure you that it’s quite …
Every day I muck out Herbie’s hutch, and clean his back legs. As most of you know, Herbie is a special needs hedgehog who has paralyzed back legs which means he can’t be released in the wild, so he lives in a rabbit hutch in the front garden. Well, yesterday I went out as usual …
Well….just look at what came in the post for me…..many thanks Sam, that’s my veggies taken care of for next year! And these ten palms I ordered arrived the same day. I think the hot weather has gone to my head and I now think I’m living in a tropical country. Still….they can survive -6 …
Last year the front and back garden went to rack and ruin as I found it impossible to get anything done with the pups being so young. If I took my eyes off them for a split second I’d find Annie disappearing through the railings or Sam roughing her up, so, in the end I …
Oh what a glorious time we’ve had! Over the last seven days we’ve had a mini heatwave and the plants, animals and people are simply loving it. My fruit bushes are romping away, as is the Rhubarb…….which then, amazingly, turns into this. Courtesy of my wonderful neighbour Barbara, not at all bad eh? The fruit trees …
This last week has been utterly glorious and the sun has been cracking the flags which has allowed me to get cracking on the millions of jobs needing doing in the garden. The cold Spring has left me really behind and now everything is growing at such speed I simply can’t keep up with all …
