The ducks have been no help at all, they still spend all their days near Captain's old hut at the big pond:
I've stopped putting out dry duck food at 2 - 3 in the afternoons as the pheasants were always lurking in vast numbers and eating it before the ducks arrived, so I now only feed them "wet" in the mornings and "dry" at night, around 5, by that time most pheasants have cleared off.
I already find it difficult to remember how it looked when the donkey shelter was there,
the photo on the right is from January 2015
Next jobs will be more clearance of the hedge to have a view beyond.
It's been such a mild winter [albeit a very wet and stormy one] that spring flowers have burst into bloom all over the garden, and to my horror my favourite plum tree is blossoming - with frost the last two nights I'm likely to miss out on plums again ....
On 10th January [I remember it because it was friend Graham's birthday] I followed up advice from one of the books Annie and girls gave me for my birthday, how to grow plants from pips and seeds, 10 different things I planted. The first I noticed sprouting was a garlic clove, just a few days later, but I didn't check the other pots until, by chance, I noticed that one with dahlia seeds from my friend Emily was looking very green .... and there was white mould forming within the plastic cover! I managed to rescue all the dahlias, but only one of the lupins from seeds of the red one outside the sun lounge, the others were killed off by the mould - I'll try again! I was very nearly too late noticing that seeds from a "black" tomato that had gone soft had also sprouted. Those, the dahlias and solitary lupin seedling are now growing well in seed trays:
I've carried on with my knitting and crochet too, this blanket was posted to the Patch Family today:
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