Thursday 30 June 2011

more finches

Well the finches have more than doubled. Yesterday I saw five! Squabbling away, being selfish over feeding and messy feeders they are too as more food ends up on the ground than in them! The thistle seeds are so fine than no other bird seems interesting in them so here's the question can I re use the seed?

There are only four birds i never did manage to get the fifth in shot.
I had a busy Sunday afternoon de-weeding the flags


And now they look neat and tidy


for a bit anyway.

We are eating more produce from the allotment


and in a break between bird visits magic came t say hello



July tomorrow where has half a year gone?

Saturday 25 June 2011

highlight of week

I saw these little chaps a few weeks ago on the grass beyond our house. So we bought a new feeder and some niger seeds and have now been rewarded



The most exciting birds we have ever had in the garden. I watched them feeding for about five minutes and then they flew off but returned later. Hopefully they will be frequent visitors now.

Our latest crop from the allotment


when they are this size you can eat them whole and very tasty they were too.

Monday 20 June 2011

produce

We have potatoes ready to eat


Biddle to checked just to make sure. These are our spare early potatoes. We thought we would check to see how they were doing and had enough for a meal. over the weekend John dug some more and so far we have had four meals from them. They were delicious with some mint I had grown from a cutting from the old allotment.

I have one poppy in the garden


the sweet pea shoots are coming through. We were late planting them this year. You can almost see the hollyhock growing

This year the honeysuckle at the back door has flowered


We have had gloomy days this month but not an awful lot of rain.

Saturday 11 June 2011

Don't Panic

Last week I logged on here to find nothing except a notice saying I no longer existed. or rather my blog didn't. After further investigations I discovered my google account was suspended due to some activity. I was about to go out to have my eyes tested so had to sort it out when I came home. I was concerned because the blog is a way of looking back over the years at what I have been up to. It is amazing how quickly we forget things. Any how as you can see all is well. I put my mobile phone number into a help page on google, they sent me a code and everything came back phew! I have no idea what the unusual activity had been.
Last week seemed very short due to the bank holiday and John being off on Tuesday too. I took an unexpected trip to Leeds to take some documents to the teaching agency. It was cheaper to go on the bus than send them special delivery. When we first moved here I used to enjoy going to Leeds because there were some lovely individual shops. Sadly like everywhere else, they have disappeared over the years.
The school I work at has had a two week spring bank so I have been catching up on things that did not get done last week. Biddle finally has his birthday jumper

I have planted out some bedding plants and the bees have been busy. I don't know what this plant is but as it is everywhere it is probable a weed.


However it is pretty and the bees like it which is the important thing.
Yesterday I went to collect my new glasses. Two pairs so I can swap. Usually I get a everyday, wear all the time pair and a pair to use on the computer. My computer had not changed much hence the two pairs for everyday.

The green and black pair are very similar the to my previous ones. There was not a brilliant choice in the price range I could afford. Some looked too trendy, others did not suit me. So I can now see better than I could. The question is of course for how long? Afterwards I went to have my hair cut so at the moment I look quite smart!

I am sewing a secret so it cannot be seen.

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