end of August

I do apologize for the long delay, John's condition has been very up and down and I've not found much spare time, but I'll now quickly put in a few photos from the last three weeks.

I do love these photos from 13.8., a serene and sunny evening.

 
Flowers and produce taken to the Luncheon Clubs on 13.8. and 27.8.

 
I saw this mummy pheasant and her single chick on 15th August, a lovely sight, and then I wondered what might have happened to her other chicks ....

 




There are still lovely roses around the house,

and next door's rabbit has reappeared in our garden.  I had to laugh out loud that day, a bunch of our ducks and drakes alerted me by standing bolt upright and staring in one directions, and then I saw that it was the rabbit that had scared them.  When it hopped towards them they turned as one and fled away flapping in panic - big brave ducks!

On Sunday 24th I thought I would cook us a couple of cobs of sweetcorn, I had seen brown tassels on them from a distance, meaning they were ready to harvest.  I was greeted by this scene of devastation:

Only 8 out of this lot of cobs hadn't been pecked - and then I remembered how on several evenings recently, when I'd been calling for the ducks to come in at bedtime, I'd seen them gathered at the edge of this bed ..... Surely they haven't got enough brains to break into the cobs of sweetcorn, it must have been the pigeons that showed them how!

We had some really heavy rain on several days:

 

And this is a picture of John on one of his good days last week.