After a week in the Lakes it was lovely to view the garden and greenhouse with a fresh pair of eyes. Things seem to grow so slowly when you see them everyday, so I was pleasantly surprised at how everything had come on in just a week. My veggie patch is thriving…..well except for my cabbages and cauliflower, they’ve been
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Well……my week at the Lake District FLEW by, and now that I’m home, I need another holiday just to get over this one, the type of holiday where you just put your feet up…. I was amazed to see new born lambs everywhere. I mean it is May after all. In fact we actually witnessed several lambs being born, which
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This terrapin is in the process of shedding it’s shell, if you look at the sections in the middle you can see they are about to fall off. This happens as the terrapin grows bigger. I find it absolutely fascinating. At the rescue there are about a hundred terrapins, and we have to separate the males from the females to
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We’ve had a rather lovely week weather wise so it was finally time to release Holly the hedgehog. She has almost dug herself out of the rabbit hutch and is certainly fat enough to survive whatever the weather now. So I left her food and water and merely left the door open, and after six long months…..off she went…..just like
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For the last week I’ve been stricken down with the most AWFUL flu bug. Generally I’m as tough as old boots and it takes a lot to knock me out, but this virus sucked the very life from me. My nose has run like a tap, I’ve never stopped sneezing and a hideous hacking cough that set my chest on
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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 be released by now and
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This Easter has come and gone in a whirlwind. Today is the first time I’ve managed to catch my breath. It began on Good Friday with hubs celebrating his 55th birthday. We spent a VERY pleasant evening visiting several splendid watering holes….. And indulging in some even more splendid real ales…… marvelous they were! Saturday was spent cleaning the boat
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After much soul searching, Hubs and I made the decision recently to sell our narrowboat as we were not using it very much and it’s far too small for the dogs, especially Sam. Well, we put it up for sale a few days ago and now a chap is coming to see it on Saturday….and he sounds keen. Sam on
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Sam is now eighteen months old and we’ve had him for fourteen months. How time flies eh??? As many of you will know, we got Sam from the rescue and he and his siblings had been bred for one purpose, to be torn apart by pit bulls in training. In four short months, Sam had been badly beaten, terrorized and
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A few days ago something underneath my clapped out old car fell off, so it’s back in the garage where hopefully it will be rejuvenated….for the umpteenth time! It’s an old VW and despite roaring along and shuddering like a tank, it’s usually really reliable. So, unless I want to be housebound for a week, it’s back to looking for
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