by adminUS | Jul 28, 2019 | Garden
The vegetable patches are coming along nicely since we stopped the rabbit from getting in to nibble everything. We have more radishes than we know what to do with and we should have potatoes up until Christmas (fingers crossed!). The squash might be a bit too late in...
by adminUS | Jul 24, 2019 | Garden
Now this one was a first for us… our friendly pheasant has discovered our bird feeder and it turns out he loves it – easy pickings if you can jump! I still can’t believe how close he comes to the house, if we leant out of the window we could almost...
by adminUS | Jul 21, 2019 | Garden
Our swallow chicks have flown the nest… but just before they left we got some footage of them squishing their nest and flapping around. Mum and dad are still around and happily living in the outhouse, but babies have gone to find their own way. If the parents...
by adminUS | Jul 18, 2019 | Garden
We took advantage of the dry weather to get the chainsaw out and attack the trees that were growing far too close to the cottage. One was an ash tree and I have no idea what the other’s were but we, when I say we I mean Mike, chopped them down and dug out the...
by adminUS | Jul 6, 2019 | Garden
While we wait for things to get moving with the cottage, it seems we’ve become avid bird watchers. After setting up a feeding station and bird bath in front of our motion sensor camera we’ve been catching some fantastic shots of all our feathered visitors....
by adminUS | Jun 26, 2019 | Garden
We must be doing something right as a hungry little rabbit decided he liked our radishes. I have to say he was quiet good at only taking one or two a day but still, in a week there’d be nothing left… So with a few stakes and some garden wire we created a...
by adminUS | Jun 24, 2019 | Garden
The local wildlife has been multiplying and since we bought a motion sensor camera we’ve been getting some fantastic shots of them. We’ve previously mentioned the friendly pheasant… they’ve been quiet lately and we were beginning to wonder if...
by adminUS | Jun 23, 2019 | Garden
It might be a little late in the growing season but there is plenty we can be getting on with so we started by digging in several beds. Radishes, sweetcorn, late season potatoes, carrots, beans, lettuce, spring onions…. we’ve planted them all… A few...
by adminUS | Jun 3, 2019 | Garden
All fenced in Our boundary fence went in this weekend, finally giving us a real view of our countryside kingdom. Huge thanks to the team who worked tirelessly through wind and rain to fit this very long fence in just two days. Now we can start planning the...
by adminUS | May 28, 2019 | Garden
This week we’ve been meeting some of the locals. The cottages haven’t been lived in for many years so we’re probably quite an unwelcome surprise. We’ve got a very friendly pair of pheasants that like to spend time in the garden and occasionally...
by adminUS | May 28, 2019 | Garden
With grass in the garden/meadow already being knee high and some lovely sunny weather we thought we’d better start to try and tame it. When we first viewed the cottages we loved them… but then when we were shown the garden and extra land and we were sold!...
