Little Cotton Rabbits

Garden friends

Amy and I have really been enjoying watching Springwatch on tv this last week. We've been following the progress of all the baby birds and badgers and we've been looking round our own patch to see what we can see. There is a family of dunnocks nesting in the clematis and in our nest box we've had great tits who have just fledged. This little chap wasn't sure about flying to begin with but by the end of the day he joined his brothers and sisters up in the tree.

We also spotted a lovely big fat frog and there's definite evidence that the hedgehogs are very busy at night in the undergrowth. I don't yet have any pictures but they've been eating the food we've left out each night and our new hedgehog box has had lots of leaves pulled into it.

Lastly, there was this little chap.

I've been thinking about a mole for ages and he's my prototype. I have a few tweaks planned but hope to have some moles ready for Etsy soonish.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend

Lazy sunny Sunday

It's the last day of the school half term break and the weather here is glorious! Toby is splashing in the paddling pool, Amy is in the shade of the tree playing on her nintendo DS, H is watching the Giro d'Italia cycling and I am happily trying out some ideas for a knitted cat motif.

Don't you just love lazy Sundays?

A walk in the woods

 

A notable achievement for Toby who, despite being somewhere new and unexpected, surprised and delighted me by walking for 15 minutes without fussing or tantrums - 15 minutes I will treasure and remember for a long time!

Oculus Reparo!

Over the weekend Toby had a bit of a melt down that resulted in him knocking off my glasses and snapping the frame. I'm really shortsighted so while my husband was doing his best to fix them temporarily with the superglue I had to resort to wearing a very old pair (I only get around to changing them around once a decade!)

You should have seen Toby's face - the biggest scowl you ever did see! Then he made a lunge for them and pulled them off my face in disgust. It seems he's not overly impressed by my changed appearance. I'm off to the optician later in the hope of getting a very similar pair - either that or it will be a very gradual de-sensitising operation to get him to accept a new look for me!

Back to the term time routine

Well, the children are back at school and all is quiet here. The school break was definitely helped by some decent spring weather. Much of our time was spent in the garden sowing seeds, planting out and enlarging the run for the chickens who were feeling a bit cooped up! It feels like the garden is coming together now with the raised linkaboard beds. They seem a great way to grow veggies and are made from recycled plastic.

The chicken run needs some plants to soften it off but the chickens now have tons of space. If anyone has any tips for chicken friendly plants I'd love to hear them. Now I've just got to cross my not-so-green-fingers that I can coax a few decent veggies from the seeds!