by adminUS | Jun 22, 2021 | Garden
Partridge vs crow For the last few months we’ve had a cute pair of red legged partridges hanging out in the garden. They’re not friendly like the pheasant (which hasn’t been back to see us since he was chased off by another male in March) but they love the bird feeder...
by adminUS | Jun 19, 2021 | Garden
Spring has finally sprung With the cold spring it’s taken a while to get things going but we’re finally looking like we might have lots of lovely veg this year. Potatoes, tomatoes, chillis, peppers, courgettes, cucumbers, peas, beans, spinach, radish, salad, onions,...
by adminUS | Jun 16, 2021 | Garden
Wildlife bonanza Not a lot’s been happening inside the cottage as I’ve been recuperating from having my gallbladder removed… so instead here’s some of the local wildlife we’re lucky enough to watch from the window. We have some very...
by adminUS | Jul 20, 2020 | Garden, Other
Wildlife makes you smile and cry Nature can be very cruel sometimes… but it’s also amazing in equal measure! It’s been a few weeks since our last wildlife post and there’s been lots going on. Our lovely pheasant family have gone from four...
by adminUS | Jun 28, 2020 | Garden, Other
Mr pheasant has a family Our friendly pheasant hadn’t been around for a few days and we thought maybe he’d gone to wildlife heaven… but no… he’d been busy having a family… and he’s brought them to visit us 🙂 Mr Pheasant comes...
by adminUS | Jun 12, 2020 | Garden
Wildlife wonders We love seeing the wildlife that comes into the garden… so we thought we’d share some of our recent visitors. Mr Pheasant and a Red Legged Partridge Mr Hare We started with a baby hare living in our compost heap… but it got big! He...
by adminUS | Jun 2, 2020 | Garden
Lovely weather for it… We’ve been spending lots of time outdoors with all the lovely weather doing more work in the garden. I also invested in a new telephoto/macro lens for the camera so I’ve been having fun taking shots of, well everything! Mowing,...
by adminUS | Apr 29, 2020 | Garden
Building a border It’s going to be a little while until we start phase 2, so we decided to do some work in the garden to make it a nicer place to relax. After mowing and general maintenance to try and keep the weeds under control we thought we’d start by doing...
by adminUS | Apr 27, 2020 | Garden
Getting ready for Spring planting As the weather is starting to break we’ve been preparing the veggie patches in the garden and planting some seeds. It’s amazing all the weeds that grow over the winter… but we’re very lucky that we have the space to spend time...
by adminUS | Nov 20, 2019 | Garden
Uncategorized Our first real frost in the countryside, it’s beautiful but with no heating or hot water it’s a little chilly! It’s our first winter living in Northumberland and it’s beautiful watching the changing seasons. Today it’s -3...
by adminUS | Sep 30, 2019 | Garden
So pleased with how the veggie garden is coming along, lots of potatoes, salad, radishes, peppers, chillis, courgettes…. and this is just from a late planted, temporary...
by adminUS | Sep 22, 2019 | Garden
It’s been a busy month or two, with floods, festivals and village fetes. But first… at the beginning of August the rain came causing some flooding and proving why we need to bring big diggers in next year to move the drainage channel at the back of the...
