Has a birthday today!

I watch MOTD while Mabel yawns and then dozes

Click below – I hastily run behind the security of a gate.

Goats are much more gentle

A foxglove is flowering in the herb bed

A Great Mullein is about to open

New hollyhocks are putting out leaves

And the purple sprouting keeps on sprouting

The flowers shouldn’t be opening until June, yet it’s only January.

with the torrential rains.

We had to vary our route around Priory Park to avoid deep puddles and footpaths that had disappeared beneath the water.

The geese, swans and ducks seem happy.

A few years ago I tried to read a bestselling book called Norwegian Wood (the international guide to chopping and storing firewood). It has some pretty pictures but I got bored with the writing.

Today a lorry load of cut wood was delivered.

We filled wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow and moved the logs next to the shed

It is now stacked under cover but, according to the book, we should have put it carefully in lines or rows or patterns. Ours is a mess but, frankly, I’m not Norwegian and I don’t care!

Waiting for winter but seeing signs of spring outside. It is quite terrifying – have we already reached a point of no return?

some Jammy Dodgers

Happy birthday dear W, happy birthday to you

Our Wednesday walk was enhanced by a birthday – but no cake.