A hush has descended of late. The birds are mostly silent now, shrouded by mist, and the days grow cold and gradually longer. A lone robin valiantly sings throughout the long freezing nights and still it rains. January is always a strange month at the rescue. The spring and summer chicks have been reared and have long since flown the nest and most …
Now winter may be cold, wet, windy and grim…..but it can be pretty too! It also has it’s cosy moments. These long dark evenings get you thinking don’t they? For some bizarre reason I found myself ruminating on whether or not I could still run tonight, no idea why! When I actually thought about it …
I’ve never known a spring quite like this one. It’s still absolutely freezing and apart from one day of cold, pale sunshine that highlighted my dirty windows, I would swear we are still in the throes of winter. Holly, the now HUGE hedgehog, is STILL in the rabbit hutch hardening off……I’d hoped that she would …
Well, it’s that time of the year when one simply HAS to make a start and begin the big clear up! Given it’s either snowing or raining I thought I’d crack on with the greenhouse. As I walked into the greenhouse, I almost trod on this brown frog, brilliantly disguised it is! Four painful hours …
