A warm welcome will await you! A numbered, usually hand drawn map (not always to scale) will be on the table just inside the entrance. Have you guessed where we’re off to? Yep… its an Open Gardens Day 🙂Last Sunday, 10 gardens owners very generously agreed to open their gardens for the afternoon to raise… Read More Set Sat Nav to the Village Hall
We’re well into Summer now! I hope you’ve all been enjoying it. Yaaaaaaaaawn… oh gosh… I’d better wake up… its Garden Party time! Yep on warm, sunny Summer days more party guests are arriving daily. No need to panic, I’m not late with my invitations… most went out years ago. The food is sorted… the… Read More Butterfly count & slow worm guests
Gosh this blogging break idea is way harder than I thought it would be! I haven’t managed the postings I had planned (lots of distractions) but keep getting ideas for other things I want to share. After blogging so long, subconsciously a ‘next posting’ is always there 🙂 Even now, I’m tempted to chat on… Read More Wishing you a great summer!
“The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is warning gardeners that soil dryness levels have already reached level often not encountered until late July/August. The recent low rainfall has led to soils having a moisture deficit of 4 inches. This means that 4 inches of rain would be needed to restore the soil to full moisture capacity.… Read More Dryness warning from RHS
Perhaps it’s a bit on the warm side to be sitting at a computer browsing garden blogs when you can be outdoors enjoying your own garden just now. Gosh… isn’t everything growing so fast just now? Weeds too of course 😉Don’t you just love that expression to describe young children growing up and getting taller…… Read More Nestbox Diary, chicks look out nestbox entrance
What is GBBD? Originated and still hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens is Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day it’s a monthly date where bloggers from around the world join together to post what is in flower in their gardens on the same day. It is fascinating to see these blooms that may also appear in… Read More GGBD June 2010
Yep, on Saturday the six chicks that we have been following in our Nestbox with a camera certainly did. Would they stay or would they go? Feeding trips by the parents were already in full swing early morning when I first looked. The live mealworms I put out were disappearing at speed. The birds were… Read More Nestbox Diary, they kept us guessing
It looks like a nice day to explore the world… maybe after breakfast 😉 Okay… maybe after dinner… Wait a minute, we need to practise… Nope… too tired… maybe tomorrow 🙂 See… how we’ve grown, All photos above taken on June 11th 2010.
Yesterday, the Blue tit chicks in our nestbox became real characters. What fun they are to watch now… absolutely addictive viewing now!! However, it’s time for the chicks to start getting ready for the world outside our nestbox. Gosh… we are almost there… so close to seeing a successful brood of chicks fledge from our… Read More Nestbox Diary, home alone
Yep… just look at the fluffy, blue and yellow mini me Blue tits max age 13 days old now! I’m hearing you all say awww 🙂 Clicking on photos will enlarge them. Mum still spends time with them throughout the day as well as out getting food for her young family. Spot the more contemporary… Read More Nestbox Diary, time to say cute