Ravendale House

I’m not one who normally suffers from the winter blues, but this year seems to be the exception.
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We have a new visitor to the garden, in the shape of a moorhen.

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I’ve spoken before about my garden birds and how I love watching their antics in and around the bird feeder. Well today I’ve been concentrating my attention on a thrush. (more…)

Yesterday teatime I was in the kitchen making the tea, it was about 4.10pm.

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My mum used to say that at her great age she’d seen everything, but in truth there’s always something new and exciting to see however old you are. Take this week as an example.

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Now there’s a big word to conjure with on a cold and wet Monday morning. Defined as the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, it can be seen at it’s best in cartoon characters such as Donald Duck and Top Cat or the delightful children’s book Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

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The compost and grow bags arrived today as promised, 4 bags of multi-purpose compost and 6 grow bags. I stowed the compost and one of the grow bags behind the shed, and the remaining 5 grow bags went in to the conservatory.

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They say ‘one swallow doesn’t make a summer’ and I’m sure ‘they’ are right, but we saw our first one today and it felt good. To be honest, ornithologically speaking, I don’t know if they’re swallows or swifts that we get in the garden. All I do know is they turn up each year without fail and are a joy to watch.

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Another sunny, if cool day and I did one of my most favourite gardening jobs. Planting things that I’ve grown from cuttings or seed out of their pots and into the ground.

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Our cat, Dulcie, is quite old now and doesn’t have the best of appetites, so during each day the food she leaves goes outside. Originally it was intended for the local stray cat and the hedgehog, and I know the food I put out after dark certainly goes to those two, as I saw the cat last night and the hedgehog the night before.

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