I know many of you have seen most of these items, but I thought I’d post about them anyway. Furnace barrow, groundmans’ barrow, chimney pot, recycled church pews and watering can. The gardens are littered with all sorts of odd paraphernalia which I tend to notice more in the winter. Recently I’ve been forced to …
Hubs, Littl’urchin and I drove through the front gates recently, only to find a silver birch tree lying along the entire length of the drive. Given it was dark and raining, hubs valiantly dragged the tree, single handed, into the old wildlife area. This is the second time a silver birch has come down, miraculously …
On Christmas day, the staff at the rescue found a zipped shopping bag in the lane across the road from the rescue, which contained a tabby kitten. A hole had been chewed inside the bag, so staff were concerned that other kittens may have escaped. Fortunately, dog walkers discovered another two kittens thanks to the …
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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