Ravendale House

First of all I should warn you that this post has nothing, whatsoever to do with gardening. Intrigued? Then read on.

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Today I had another ‘proper’ gardening day, that’s the second in 2 days. If I keep on like this I’m in danger of becoming a proper gardener!

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After a tiring day yesterday we went for a short walk before tea (which thankfully Peter was making.) We hadn’t gone far when we spotted something neither of us have ever seen before. Sadly it was dead.

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Now that the hedges are cut there are lots of other things that need attention, so today I had a proper gardening day. What with my knee, my shoulder and the weather, these ‘proper’ days have been a bit thin on the ground this year. It’s a wonder things look as good as they do.

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In the end we decided to finish the hedge cutting ourselves, hard work doesn’t begin to describe it, but we triumphed in the end as you can see.

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Now that’s a question you don’t hear very often, in fact in all my 57 years I don’t think I’ve ever heard it before, and I’ve certainly never said it myself, that is until a couple of days ago.

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Don’t you just love ’em?

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Today I went for a walk around the garden, it felt more like Ocober 18th than July!

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I love to see butterflies in the garden, sadly there seem to be fewer these days. Strange as it may seem for a gardener, I also like to see caterpillars and often wonder what kind of butterfly or moth they will grow in to.

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In 1986 we moved into our first house that had a proper garden. It had belonged to a keen lady gardener who had sadly died, and we bought the house from her son.

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