This morning, when I opened my green house up, I found an early morning visitor. This is only the second Peacock butterfly I’ve seen this year. We have quite a few Brimstones. It stayed long enough for all the children to see it and butterfly books were on the kitchen […]
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The old tree trunk
A few years ago my husband cut down four old conifer trees that had grown too big and were too close to the electricity lines. We dried and burnt most of the wood, but kept one last section for the children to play with. They’ve had lots of imaginative fun […]
Read morePreparing raised beds for sowing
We’ve been getting our raised beds ready for sowing today. Inevitably we have unearthed a lot of mini-beasts. If we had been counting, I’m pleased to say that earth worms would be in the lead. We chatted about why earthworms were very welcome and we do our best to look […]
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All part of life
Today I took the children to my parents’ house, or should I say garden. I don’t think they came in the house for more than something to eat. They lay in the daffodil beds, played hide and seek in among the bushes and made daisy chains. They hunted for ladybirds […]
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