A big birthday party at The Gables
For a big birthday.
Salad selection picked, just now, from the garden and the polytunnel
Young spinach leaves, red veined sorrel, lambs lettuce, round lettuce, rocket, sorrel, welsh onions, dill.
Like a summers day – 22 walkers met at Brampton for a sunny U3A stroll
A short stop inside the part medieval church
Then a cooling walk by the river
And back to our starting point. Glorious.
Is this the teeniest, tiniest egg, and who laid it?
As the sun went down there was plenty of noise near the pond
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Little ‘Un managed to get inside the tree enclosure and chomped on the lush grass.
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I got him out for his bottle of milk
Amidst the beauty and the peace of The Gables their is killing and carnage
Tulips in the courtyard and sunflowers in tubs and ducks roaming free ….but the dead pigeon this morning was a stark reminder that nature is not always peaceful and I caught the cats fighting, this afternoon, over the remaining leg of a rabbit that Mabel caught!
Oh Nigel!
He has spent all morning trying to climb up to the nest box where the blue tits are trying to feed their nestlings. Losing patience, he caught an unsuspecting pigeon.
Lily waits patiently as Lucy and Bella munch their morning hay
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Nigel takes an interest in the goose eggs
Floppy and his surrogate mum are doing well
The date plants and avocados (grown from avocado stones and date pits and nursed in the house all winter) go out into the courtyard. Will they survive?
Jeremy plants out sunflowers grown from seeds he saved last year.
And the sun sets on a gorgeous afternoon
