Goodness, Christmas has come and gone in a blurr, as always. The time in between Christmas and New Year is always so relaxing by contrast. Daughter and Litl’urchin graced us with their presence and a vegan [except the salmon for hubs] feast was enjoyed. The dogs have decided to sulk during Christmas dinner and sit …
I’m in my usual state of disorganised panic; guilty of leaving things too late then frantically trying to catch up. Still, lists are written, even if they do get longer each day. One job I won’t be doing this year is sending Christmas cards as we’re having postal strikes, which means cards are unlikely to …
The garden renovation is slowly but surely getting there. “The Steps” to the left of the gates are finally finished. They are planted, turfed and the pond is now in. All the raised beds are weeded, covered with weed fabric control and finished with white stones. With luck, that area should be pretty low maintenance …
Between the rescue, caring for our adorable Littl’urchin [always a pleasure] and frantically digging up and repotting the remaining plants from the front garden and having a social life has resulted in life being a little busy of late. We’ve been trying to weed/prune and cover all the borders that will remain in the front …
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 …
Fruitlets, soft fruit and veggies are romping away. As fast as the berries and currants ripen, the birds eat them, which is fine by me as I’m not that precious about them, and there’s always plenty left for us. The mixture of sunshine and showers has meant that I haven’t had to water anything so …
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Korean lilac The garden has burst into bloom and flowers and weeds are everywhere. I’m trying to work my way through the borders, but as fast as I weed one, the previous one bursts into weeds again. Clematis montana, covering a seven foot tree stump. Now that the first lush greens of spring have come …
The first pair of squabs, wood-pigeon chicks, have arrived at the rescue. How I love these chicks, they always feel like hot potatoes in your hand. So easy to hand rear too. Soon the rescue will be flooded with chicks of all descriptions! We’ve have the odd duckling, blackbird, thrush, pigeon etc, but spring was …
It’s been all systems go this week. At last, this wall is ivy free, and order has been restored, to this little bit of the courtyard anyway. It’s been an absolute battle, especially scraping the remnants off the wall, in the end, hubs burnt it off, well, singed it enough for me to paint over …
It’s all about jobs being done at the moment. The front gates have become impossible to close of late, so, Paddy was consulted and he diagnosed subsiding pillars. Armed with a sledge hammer, he promptly demolished the pillars, swiftly laid new foundations and left saying he’d be back in a couple of days. Two weeks …
