Birdlife

Yesterday morning we had two unexpected visitors. I saw them as they hesitantly and delicately came around the patio just outside the dining room – all prettily dressed in fancy feathers and looking as though they expected breakfast. Very different to our usual breakfast visitors, the rooks.

My camera is still missing, so I have borrowed an image for illustrative purposes! Continue reading “Birdlife”

Green stuff

My garden is smallish and nothing special at all –  but it is organic. Always has been, for 20 odd years.

I don’t worry about snails and slugs. They can get on and do what they do. I don’t grow hostas any more because the slugs loved them just too much and turned them into lace, which while pretty and unusual, wasn’t the point.

Bird are what I worry about;  the extraordinary and disappointing change in the bird landscape of the average garden. Continue reading “Green stuff”