While at the Lakes, we stayed at our usual cottage, The Stable, which nestles in the heart of Eden. This glorious waterfall is right outside the cottage and the endless rushing, roaring and thundering, is utter music to my ears. While we were there it poured down almost every day, but being the stoical little …
A squab. Life is becoming hectic at the rescue, the first of the orphans are beginning to arrive, and currently we have several pigeon chicks needing hand feeding…I just love these ugly ducklings! You should SEE how much they eat in one sitting! There are several blackbird chicks on syringe feeds every twenty minutes…. along …
How beautiful Vesuvius looks while sleeping, yet beneath that calm exterior lurks a brooding cocktail of gas and molten rock that could blow at any moment… Private home I found Pompeii utterly compelling. To think the town still stands, three thousand years after being bombarded by rock, gas and ash. I don’t think anything we …
The moment has arrived… I now have to trust Laura to look after the dogs, and keep them away from the cat. Barbara, from next door is on Curly cat duty, and Herbie the hog has been taken to the rescue. I have been patrolling the garden checking fence panels and have, to my utter …
We’ve had some really atmospheric misty mornings and evenings recently, and I must say, I’m a huge fan of mist! Easter Sunday dawned, and hubs and I were wandering along a lonely stretch of canal in search of the perfect place to release the grebe that came into the rescue recently. Now….research was conducted and …
It’s been horrendously wet and windy over the last few days, and as a result we’ve had several birds brought into the rescue looking utterly exhausted. This pheasant was found soaking wet lying by the side of a road. He’s sporting his finest plumage at the moment hoping to attract the ladies. Hopefully, a …
What a crazy old week it’s been, all higglety pigglety and busy. One of the highlights was the arrival of my new pans. Now, I rarely wax lyrical about such things, but, one by one every pan I seem to own has imploded or fallen to bits, so having a nice new shiny set is rather …
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Is it just me or are any of you having problems receiving email notifications of blogspot posts? I am still subscribed to the blogs but haven’t had any notifications for over a week. I am trying to keep up with blogspot posts, but bear with me if I’m missing some, I’m trying to get …
Last Saturday we actually had a little sunshine, so took full advantage of it and went to the beach, luckily we had it all to ourselves! It must have been warmish as daughter sat out in the garden with me while I worked like a pack horse! She’s now met a lovely chap who is …
The new rose bower is FINALLY up! The guy who made it spent three afternoons trying to erect it. As it’s on a windy corner it needed to be concreted in and of course each time the chap came the wind howled unmercifully, but it’s now up…..and about to be painted. Then it’s just a …
