Monday, February 27

Looks like spring - feels like winter


We did go to the allotment last week but I didn’t take any photos. I had intended taking a photo when we revisited the plot later in the week but we never had a return visit.

I cut down the old growth of the autumn raspberries and started tidying the bed so I was going to take a photo when I had finished hopefully that will be sometime this week.

Martyn, had another fire so managed to clear most of the debris from cutting back bushes. The laurels were cut back last year and the ‘prunings’ had been piled up for a year so were very dry and burned quite quickly.

We had a couple of walks around a local park where there were carpets of crocuses. The roadside was edged with yellow crocuses which surprisingly were untouched by birds.+



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Monday, February 20

Cracking on


All that was left of the huge pile of ‘prunings’, that we had piled up, was a modest pile of ash.

This will be put to good use and spread on the bed.




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Monday, February 13

Going quackers

The forecast is for wet or drizzly weather this week, so last weekend we decided that we had better have a fire to burn the huge pile of ‘prunings’ that we had gathered.

The ruling on our site is that fires should only be lit one hour before dusk so before we started on the fire we had a few others jobs to keep us occupied.

I cleared the roots from last year’s brassica bed and did more weeding and hoeing.

Martyn, decided to clear the old lavender plants. The plants had become very woody and straggly and were infested with couch grass. Now that the lavender has been removed we will need to dig out the grass roots. Once the lavender was cleared it revealed an unexpected resident – a rather large frog. He or she was gently transferred to another hiding place.


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Monday, February 6

New beginnings

We've upped our pace a bit this week having not only spent an afternoon at the allotment but also spending some time tidying up in the garden. 

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Saturday, February 4

RSPB big garden bird count

We’ve taken part in the RSPB annual bird count for over ten years but this year we nearly missed it. Last Saturday night, Martyn asked if we should have been counting the birds. The count took place from 27 January until 29 January which meant that just left Sunday to squeeze in a count.

For the benefit of those who haven’t heard of the bird count, you are asked to count the highest number of each species of bird, seen from your vantage point, for one hour. We usually watch from our side window which overlooks the bird feeding area so we don’t actually manage to count the total number of birds to visit the garden just the ones that visit this particular part of the garden.



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Wednesday, February 1

February in pictures

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January in pictures

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