Happy Mothers Day!

I have been thoroughly spoilt today by my lovely daughters, I got a number of presents........... 2 plants (of course) 1 is a Bird of Paradise (tropical) and 1 a Spirea, both are now in pots and of course I forgot to take pics.

But I also got




The BBC'c period drama North & South starring Richard Armitage, he is such a dish! He was the bloke who Geraldine married in the 'Vicar of Dibley' and was also 'Guy of Gisborn' in the BBC 'Robin Hood'. Plus a 'Best of 10cc' CD! Who remembers them??? I have been playing it over and over!!
I also have a new visitor to my garden



She is so cute and I think replaces the one whose wings broke, who went away and has not been seen since?

I thought you might appreciate my youngests card as well






MMmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whilst outside my lovely hubby managed to get the big tree stump out for me, and Tori and I put up the trellis



I think you get the idea of what I'm doing now! If we don't have snow I can get on with the rest of the plan, I don't mind working in the cold as long as its not wet!!

Garden, Pond, Frogs, Chickens, Fairies and Flowers!!

Wednesday is Chicken day!! Well cleaning out the eglu!! As usual the weather forecasters got it wrong, according to yesterdays weather it was due to chuck it down today, I think it passed over quicker than expected! So of I toddled down the garden and what do I find.............

Frogs Spawn!!!



silly frogs, sadly this lot will probably get killed by the frost!!!! Then I noticed the pump was playing up so I had to sort that out which involved getting very wet and for some unknown reason a couple of dead frogs attached to the pump!! I have no idea how they get trapped, they shouldn't but then of course no one tells them that!!

This next bit is very sad, so if you are of a squeamish nature I suggest you look away.......



poor fairy, she must have crash landed and her wings fell off!!! Either that or one of my cats chased her and they fell off in fright!!!! So I spoke very quitely to her and asked if I could help, she told me she would be grateful if I could try and mend her wings, so she is inside my house keeping nice and warm until I can come up with a way to mend them!!!!

All this excitment and I haven't even reached the chickens!!! I had let them out but can't see them anywhere! This is impossible in my garden its so small you can't lose anything, ah ha!



here they are round the other side of the greenhouse!! See Big Bird in the middle keeping an eye on things!!!! She always does this, whilst the others peck and scratch away!!!

Eglu done, all tidied away etc. etc. etc. MMMmmmmmmm! its only 10.15, to early to go in, what mischief can I get up to now!!! Just look what I did, don't tell hubby though!!!



Its all gone, chopped up and put in the bags on the right!! All that lot now has to go right through my house, as I have no rear access!!!



You can see how much light it will let through if you compare it to yesterdays photos!!




The big fir bush/tree came out a good 3 - 4ft!!! in the last photo the sun is just starting to poke its head through the clouds, so if you look straight at the water butts,and say that 12 o'clock the sun is peeping through at 11 o'clock, so you can see how much light will get through once I have moved all the plants!!!

The big disadvantage to this clever plan is this



Can you see?? I can too, right the way to the very bottom of the garden!!! I don't like that, theres no mystery!!!! I think the answer maybe 'Jerusalem Artichokes!!! They grow 6 -8ft tall I believe so if I planted them close, to the flower bed on the right, near where the dogwood is (that is coming out!), so the flower bed is used to less sunlight it may creat a screen for the summer! Something to ponder about!

Now for something cheerful........................

Flowers...... thank you Vallen I had fun doing these, the pattern is here.

My first attempt.....





second go......