Cards, flowers and chickens – and the chickens….. ……contain eggs. Also one of my Christmas cactuses thinks it might also be an Easter cactus. What have these to do with Easter? Good question! Not much? Or the chickens and the flowers might signify new life and the flowers, cards and chocolate are a celebration. So?…
Category: Other things
Cat or Dog?
This was one of my Christmas presents. I was convinced it was a dog, but all my friends said it was a cat – but they were the friends with kittens, so they were biased! It’s tail was much too short for any cat. I agree that it’s whiskers were more cat-like, though. He actually…
Too many kittens?
First there was Rufus. He has grown into a (quite handsome) cat. Then there was Taffy, who has also grown into a (quite furry) cat. She got a friend – Toffee – and he is all black. Are they really friends or do they just live in the same house? Now there is Dobby –…
Wildlife!
In my garden some of the “wildlife” is very unwelcome. The slugs or snails have been eating my petunias and salvia. Then the squirrels have been eating the flower buds of a rose and the clematis. I have yet to have any flowers that have managed to come out on either. On the other hand,…
Garden notes 2
Everything is very slow in the garden this year as it has been so cold. A friend and I went to “Baskets and Blooms” at the end of April and bought plants. I got a saxifrage, a forsythia and some bedding plants. The saxifrage was put in almost immediately. The forsythia went in quite quickly…
On one walk….
A friend and I were going for a walk, down to the Nadder. We saw: what we think was an egret and as we watched it it caught a fish; two swans come in to land on the river, then three more came in next to them and finally, after they had waited a bit,…
Garden Notes
The clematis armandii is in full flower and doing well this year. I think it does better the more I prune it. The rhubarb is also doing well, but I do keep watering it – every day in fact. I have had one lot. It is now ready for me to pick some more. As…
Nephews
I have two nephews. This is what one has achieved during lockdown. The other one tells me he shaved his head 2 months ago (hair has grown again since) and has been working for his finals and achieved a first class honours degree from Oxford University! Later…. Both nephews thought I should add to this……
Thank you presents
I must have complained too much about putting together the IKEA furniture because a few weeks later I was told there ware presents as a thank you for doing it. First I was given a special apron for doing the chest of drawers. And a few weeks later, a special T-shirt for helping with the…