Foraging corner and that which has been dried (dehydrated) so far. The aim is that this food will feed my guinea pigs over the winter when their diet is otherwise very monotonous; buying in similar is very expensive. I’m sure my neighbours all think that this is the messiest and worst corner of my […]Read Post ›
Anyone for some giant watercress? It was a super hot day, so I took advantage of this and spent the afternoon barefoot in the beck, clearing it out. Unfortunately I forgot to take a before photo. Well, “forgot”. I had just headed down the garden with the dog to hang out, with no prior plans […]Read Post ›
If your council doesn’t provide an easily accessible public list of Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs) does that mean a) your council gives no shits about trees a.i.) will prosecute you after the event as money is worth more to them than trees a.ii.) will not even keep tabs on what is happening because they doubly […]Read Post ›
First grass mowing of the year! Keeping the top short, and putting paths in lower down. Plan is to just let the rest of it grow out and see what species are already present if allowed to develop.
Various angles of the beck The beck flows through most of the village before coming to me, then on to my next-door neighbour, and out the far end of the village. Just upstream of my garden is the village green which was created, and the beck partially culverted, in the mid 70s. The culvert […]Read Post ›
I was really taking photos of my neighbour’s escaped chicken that was living in my garden, but shows the middle bit and the weird-bush-by-the-beck area quite well.
My first experience of the beck flooding. Photo taken to get an idea of how far the water extends re. plant habitat boundaries
Photos from before I lived here, when perfect lawn was order of the day. The previous people who lived here had visiting grandkids, and the people before them were an older couple who had lived here since the house was originally built. There’s a lot of mature trees (will have been planted in the 70s/80s/90s […]Read Post ›
I’ve had multiple changes in the pets I keep over the past 4 years, mostly on account of declining health. Which of course left even less time and fewer spoons for writing about them. Then in 2018 I moved house, twice. I’ve gone from having a tiny amount of outside space (mostly bins and strawberries […]Read Post ›
Dandelion Soup 