My Beautiful Girls! Daughter and Littl’urchin Christmas eve. Littl’urchin opening her very first present. I bought it and thankfully, she liked it! Daughters’ presents to me, oh…that rose…sighs. Hubs and I opening presents. I was spoilt as usual, lots of tickets to shows, jewelry…I don’t do jewelry, but love crystals, so must post pics sometime… …
After a flurry of last minute donations, the rescue goes quiet at this time of the year. Visitors and donations dwindle, but many more pets arrive, as people often abandon them at Christmas. We do have some wonderful souls who continue to volunteer in the various units and a team of voluntary dog-walkers who turn …
Forget Christmas, which I haven’t really got around to… or into yet. A quick potter around the front garden struck terror into the very heart of me, as every which way I squinted, jobs presented themselves. No beauty shots here, just the truth, as always, maybe I need to rethink these gardens…and house …as I’m getting …
Birds, branches and bedraggled beech nuts. Wilting hibiscus. Sodden leaves and boisterous dogs. Raised beds and bird sown yew tree. Entangled vines. Iris seed pods. Glowing dogwoods. Fading, papery hydrangeas. In other news… I’ve been out and about rather a lot recently, but my favourite’s are… when the “Whatever the Weather Girls” took themselves across …
The weather has been somewhat grim around these parts of late and having a severe dose of lurgy has me seeing everything through a flu-ridden, glassy-eyed haze. Still, there is much to enjoy if you look for it! The apple tree is now a mass of rose hips and even has a clematis flowering within …
Flowers from beautiful daughter. One of many days out with my girlfriends. My adorable girls in the pumpkin patch, the Gods are smiling down on them! Littl’urchin and I in the cornfield. Littl’urchin growing up FAR too fast. Dogwood leaves clinging on for dear life! The last gasp of the dahlias. Daughters’ swop-shop, the first …
This may look like the back of someone’s head, but it’s my pygmy hog, Heidi, all curled up. The problem I have with Heidi at this time of the year, is that she’s not a native hedgehog. Given she’s an African species and is only a quarter of the size of an adult native hedgehog, …
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Derwent water We’ve just spent a week in the Lake District. This time we abandoned our usual haunt in Rydal and ventured on to pastures new, with the dogs. We stayed in a cottage in St John’s in the Vale, around six miles outside Keswick. It was utterly isolated given there were only a few …
It feels like Littl’urchin has always been around now. I really can’t remember what life was like without her! As she’s grown, we’ve gradually become more organized, as her needs change on a daily basis. To think she’s six and a half months already. Struth!!! How I’m enjoying seeing the world through her eyes. The …
