Siskin

Siskins have been feeding regularly at the feeder - this one was quite happy
for me to get very close.

Another beautiful day.....

and when our neighbour invited us to join them for a walk we were too polite to refuse.

Our walk

We went on a new walk this afternoon up the hill behind the house - or in
front of the house probably - you can see it in the photo, behind the
playhouse. The walk took us right to the trig point looking out to the
Beacons one way and up the valley to the North. Amazing.

My robin has come back to watch me.

Progress on the three-bay compost bins.

You know you live in the country when..... no2.

You know you live in the country when you spend hours looking at (drooling over) chainsaws....

16"  42cc hmmmmm......

This is art. Stuff floating on the pond.

This is the equivalent of the test card on tv. Not much happening here - just watching the rain falling. But I have ordered full wet weather gear!!

Water butts.

The new water butts set up to capture the water from the garage roof and will be piped to the polytunnel.

A good use for a barbecue.

Steve was threatening to use the old barbecue for cooking food so I had to work quickly. Alpine plants in the top and ferns in the bottom. Sorry Steve.

Rain stopped play.

Rain rain rain. Fields are very wet. I am building a boat. The rabbits will be ok but we may have to leave some chickens behind.

Interesting times.

I have had a couple of days doing fiddly little jobs - in the house and odds and ends in the garden and greenhouses ( doesn't that sound grand.... Greenhouses....). Things like planting sweet peas and broad beans and moving the fruit bushes from under the fruit trees. But then this afternoon Monika popped in. She is the previous previous owner and ex-wife of the man who did the original conversion. Kate had met her in the local supermarket a while ago and invited her to pop in. She brought with her the original building plans to give us and told us many tales of the place. We gave her a guided tour and she has promised to return with photos of the work in progress.

Time off for good behaviour.

To celebrate getting the polytunnel up I have taken a few days off. So a walk up to the waterfall viewpoint in the sunshine. And then lunch at the pub.