What with digging the new area in the garden and hunting snails, we have spent a lot of time looking down in the last few days. There may be a lot going on up in the sky, but at the moment we are looking down. We have been unearthing treasure. […]
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Need a bigger kitchen garden
Today we moved the hens into their summer quarters. It gives them more shade in the summer and also frees up the winter quarters for planting. Moving them involves moving the hen house, which is heavy. The chickens watched us move it. See, they even played follow my leader. One […]
Read moreMore May Day Fun
We spent the afternoon in a little village, which was celebrating May Day. It’s a bank holiday today, so no work and no school. There was maypole dancing, Morris men and plain, good fun games such as toss the welly. In my excitement, I forgot to recharge my camera battery, […]
Read moreGardens, children and taking time
Briefly this morning the sun came out. I was almost fooled into putting out the washing. I spotted AJ’s miniature alpine garden from two years ago (this year’s miniature garden), which she had transplanted into an alpine trough. She sees it as very much her garden. She pulls out weeds […]
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