I was surprised to see honey bees, flies and ladybirds all over the fatsia flowers, it is nearly December is it not? It takes a while to adapt to these long dark nights, but in a way I’m rather grateful for them as I now spend a few hours each evening sorting cupboards and generally …
I received a rather frantic phone call from my neighbour last week, she had undertaken to care for her sons’ cat for a month and had totally forgot that she and her hubs had booked to go to London for five days. “Could you see to the cat?” she pleaded. Well of course I could. …
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Over the last week there has been a steady influx of tiny hoglets. They are about the size of golfballs and are amazingly cute. This one is supposed to be tucked up under that towel but instead prefers to run around the top of it! You would be surprised at how much food these babies …
Gathering seed. There is no denying now, that summer has come and gone, and yet, even though autumn is obviously making it’s presence felt, I have to say that I can’t remember a more beautiful September. The days are warm and dry, and yet there is that wonderful autumn chill in the air, and an …
So…..Comfrey, the three legged cat. Here’s a quick review since his arrival in our garden six months ago. At first he yowled from a distance and sneakily devoured Curly cats’ food, then after a month he befriended me and blatantly devoured Curly cats’ food, resulting in me feeding him separately. Then he moved into the …
Yesterday I came across a young rat in a trap. It was dead and judging by the droppings it had been in that trap for many days. It’s feet were curled around the steel bars and it’s face was pressed hard against the cold bars of it’s tomb. I wondered how it must have felt, …
In a previous post I briefly mentioned a starling we have at the rescue, but as it’s such a character I thought I’d tell it’s tale in full, mainly because we’ve never quite had a bird like it. It arrived as a featherless chick and had a face only a mother could love. As …
A male fox, 18 months old, bitten by a dog. Working with the foxes was nothing like I expected it to be. First I imagined that they would be cordoned off somehow, and be irate and up for a scrap…..I was wrong on both counts. The foxes are kept in cages and a divider is …
Grandma giant I’m sure that most of you saw the giants that visited Liverpool recently on the news. This time around they were here to remember the Liverpool Pals, local men who were recruited from tight knit communities to fight in WW1. The sad thing was that virtually none of these men returned and the …
We have been having an out and out heatwave over the last week, and although it’s wonderful I’m simply not used to it. Brazilica came to town and for the life of me I don’t know how the girls danced in such heat….you’ve got to tip a cap to them! Right in my face she …
