@tui34 I told my farming brother about your swallow, and he said that a group of swallows had arrived at the next door farm yesterday, on the edge of the River Deben in east Suffolk. 😊
Night night all … sleep tight 🛌 🐑
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I am knackered. I've spent 5 hours in the vegetable garden today, planting and weeding. Planted potatoes, cabbages, curly Kale and lettuces. Knees, back and hands ache. Only one rainless day forecast before I leave so had to get it done.
CB came and mowed and strimmed all the awkward bits, cut up a dead tree and cut the lower branches off a pine tree which tried to hit your head when mowing on the tractor.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning everyone. Hubby had an early appt in town today, so I slept in while he did that. They put a rice size pellet under the skin on his tummy. I think it’s oestrogen.
Anyway, while he was gone the “ding dong” which lets us know that someone has driven up our driveway kept going, so I turned it off at the wall. When he got home I told him, and he reasoned that it needed new batteries, so he opened the casing and out fell a tiny bat. There were two of them, he said. Anyway, he put the fallen bat back in and left the battery out for now. 😂 If I can, I’ll try to get a photo later.
Wow @Pat E … do you think the hats were just seeking overnight accommodation, or were they looking for somewhere to spend the winter? They’d need more protection than a box for the winter wouldnt they?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning everyone, grey and wet here. @Pat E how exciting, perhaps you should put up a proper bat box on a nearby tree. Hubby could probably make one, that would be a nice project. Still battling with Halfords to get the correct tyres on the car.
High Allotment Boy. I’ve just finished asking my clever daughter to make some boxes for the bats. She’s very happy to do it for us. She was the one that made the existing one that is for the car warning alarm on our driveway. 😁😁
Wow, how lovely, @Pat E we put some bat boxes in our garden many years ago, but I don’t know whether they got used. Saw my first bats of the year two nights ago, when I took the dog out for her final bedtime ablutions.
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Night night all … sleep tight 🛌 🐑
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
CB came and mowed and strimmed all the awkward bits, cut up a dead tree and cut the lower branches off a pine tree which tried to hit your head when mowing on the tractor.
Fancy that @Pat E.
just waking up … I slept like a log … I’ve had my first coffee and it didn’t touch the sides … second is on its way ….
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Pat E how exciting, perhaps you should put up a proper bat box on a nearby tree. Hubby could probably make one, that would be a nice project.
Still battling with Halfords to get the correct tyres on the car.
we put some bat boxes in our garden many years ago, but I don’t know whether they got used. Saw my first bats of the year two nights ago, when I took the dog out for her final bedtime ablutions.