The day didn’t start off promisingly. Rather than a luminous dawn, it was murky and dank. I awoke to the drip-drip of rain coming in through the leaky bedroom window. Even the dogs were unenthusiastic about going out into the garden. This bench has never looked less inviting. No one wants to come out…
Category: Winter
We Made Compost!
How we made the most beautiful compost you ever saw…
I have jelly in my lupins!
This post is written in haste because I have just been able to repeat a discovery I made a couple of weeks ago. Water turns to jelly! My step-daughter and I discovered this together when we poked the water in the bird-bath early one morning, and it was gelatinous. The surface tension was stronger, and…
A Winter Walk
This morning Stevie suggested we go for a walk over the snowy fields before it all melts away. We tracked animal footprints, spotting lots of different-sized birds, rabbits, foxes, possibly a badger, possibly a deer. We admired the partly-frozen river and the undulating snowdrifts along its banks. There were gnarly oaks:. And blue blue sky….
Turn your mardy-bums into lardy-bums!
I am becoming bird-obsessed. I’ve noticed our regular visitors getting a little bit fractious in the extreme arctic conditions. There have been minor skirmishes through to full-on dive-bomb explosions. Feathers have flown. The blackbirds have been downright peevish, at times sitting on the fat-balls to stop anyone else getting a look-in. The goldfinches seem to…
SNOW!!! IT’S SNOWING!!!
We were VERY excited to wake up to snow this morning. School was cancelled and it looked like it was going to be difficult to get a car out. These are a few pics from our walk down the lane. It was so quiet! The only sounds were the crump of snow as we walked,…
Making the most of the morning commute
I get to drive all over Kent for my job. Given that much of Kent is pretty stunning, this is no bad thing. There are sweeping views over fields and chalk downs, winding worm-holes through woodland, coastal roads looking out over the sea, and misty, magical marshes, which used to be under the sea. The other…
