Ravendale House

We all know it’s been a hard winter, but I feel it may have been harder than we realised for some of our little furry friends.

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Yesterday was glorious, more like Summer than early Spring. Warm and  sunny from first thing, without a hint of wind, which is a refreshing change as it feels to have been blowing a gale for the last 10 days.

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It’s still probably a bit early to do this, but today I’ve been counting the cost of the harsh winter.

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Well I couldn’t put it off any longer, let’s face it, I’ve been putting it off for long enough, 12 years to be precise. Now the old tree is gone I no longer have an excuse not to clear out the ditch.

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I’d almost given up hope of the chaps coming back to cut down the old tree, but yesterday, just 6 weeks after their first visit, they turned up.

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I know I’ve been a bit absent recently, that’s because I’m helping Peter build a new website. But don’t think I haven’t been busy gardening too. (more…)

Today I did some proper gardening, despite my bad knee.

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Today I saw a treecreeper in the garden. Happy St Davids Day.

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A few days ago I did something really silly, and fell very heavily on my left knee. I won’t go into detail, lets just say it involved black bin liners, but I’m lucky not to have broken my knee cap, as I crashed with my full 9 stone on to the concrete.

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Having a garden of this size creates a lot of debris over the years. The green recycle bin provided by the council doesn’t even come close to what we need, so we choose to compost ours or burn it.

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