I have been on the forum for a few months now...(just as a reader and taking tips lol) so today I thought I'd join in and feel like I know you all already.
Hello, Clarice, welcome to the forum, I'm in Dordogne, cold winters, hot summers, can rain very hard. Well done for taking the plunge! I use a laptop so the smileys work.
I answered your question about posting photos on other thread, but I've never used an ipad so hope you can work something out.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
That was a busy afternoon - sorting out piles of dead vegetations, sticks, logs etc and making it all into more hidey-holes for hedgehogs etc in out of the way corners behind tree trunks etc. I've also tried to sort out stacks of various plastic pots etc and in doing so discovered at least a dozen leopard slugs - they've been rehomed in the compost bins
Every so often the robin came and shouted at me that the mealworm dish was empty - I had a sit down on the terrace with mealworms on my lap and yes, he came and took them
The starlings that are nesting in next door's roof have also discovered the dish of live mealworms - robins take one at a time back to their nest - the starlings behave like a starving man at an All you can eat Buffet You know those photos of puffins with their beaks full of fish !!!?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Afternoon Clarice
Had a lovely lunch with my friend
Am quite full now and could do with a snooze 
Might just go and hold down the bench for a bit in the sunshine 
Oops, sorry, I meant to say the fingers crossed was for "nothing" to go wrong with garden...(Al get there lol)
Hiya Panda...wish I could do the same but no luck here right now as weather is dreadful.
Garden is fine after my check just a few flower heads that have totally vanished with wind/rain....I'm sure they will come back..
We seem to have been having terrible spring weather past few years..
Clarington, my apologies, I have just seen your welcome. Hello and Ty.
I'm in the South East so get some lovely weather
Not as often as Verdun but he is in Cornwall 
(see pic on previous page for Verdun 
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I have been on the forum for a few months now...(just as a reader and taking tips lol) so today I thought I'd join in and feel like I know you all already.
What area do you live in Clarice? It's been bad here but you describe it better
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Love your robin Dove. You'll have it trained soon - especially if it has a nestfull
Hello, Clarice, welcome to the forum, I'm in Dordogne, cold winters, hot summers, can rain very hard. Well done for taking the plunge!
I use a laptop so the smileys work.
I answered your question about posting photos on other thread, but I've never used an ipad so hope you can work something out.
That was a busy afternoon - sorting out piles of dead vegetations, sticks, logs etc and making it all into more hidey-holes for hedgehogs etc in out of the way corners behind tree trunks etc. I've also tried to sort out stacks of various plastic pots etc and in doing so discovered at least a dozen leopard slugs - they've been rehomed in the compost bins
Every so often the robin came and shouted at me that the mealworm dish was empty - I had a sit down on the terrace with mealworms on my lap and yes, he came and took them
The starlings that are nesting in next door's roof have also discovered the dish of live mealworms - robins take one at a time back to their nest - the starlings behave like a starving man at an All you can eat Buffet
You know those photos of puffins with their beaks full of fish !!!?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.