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| Sweet Cicely - cooked with rhubarb to neutralize the acidity without sugar, so it is growing beside the rhubarb. |
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| Flowering Apple - it's one week of fame for this year. |
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| Plum Tree |
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| Close up to the Bride bush |
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| My Weed (with some lesser celandine) |
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| The Bride Bush is starting to bloom. |
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| Tulip and Loganberry bursting into life. |
We hope you all had a good Easter (if you celebrated it this weekend) or 'have a good Easter' if you are still hanging out for next weekend. I suffered three days of small humans.
We had 6yr old lad (Tiger) for two days on his own, and a yard full of them on Sunday. F and Mr B thought they kept Tiger busy, swimming, biking, picnicking, doing stuff at the allotment, baking, making pizza, and building a patio table out of old pallets, but I think he was the one calling the dance..... He had written a list on the new kitchen blackboard at the start of the day and kept reminding them of things he wanted to do next. Crikey what did his last slaves die of? |
| The Russian cupboard has a full door at last.... |
He came back from the allotment armed with a 'bow and arrows' that F had helped him make out of coppice off a willow tree. Do kids even play with homemade toys these days?
Loads of Mr B's family (4 generations) turned up on Sunday and ate roasted lamb, and kicked footballs around the lawn and hid eggs and unhid them again. I studied a new small human through the garage window. She couldn't quite reach me because Mr B had installed a thing that stops the window opening very far. I can be brave about small humans when they can't reach me.
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| Ha, can't reach me....... |
I sounds quite riotous. I guess they didn't bring any --dogs??
ReplyDeleteNo dogs - there are two in that extended family group but K9's are verboten in MY backyard, so they had to stay at their respective homes.
DeleteHari Om
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a lot of energy expended - if only it could be trapped into a battery for later controlled release! All those blossoms are a delight to the eye... as is the pawtrait of your good self, Tigger dear. Hus and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Good idea Yam-Aunty, but we have no idea how to wire them up to use as generators. Furrings and Purrings Mr T
Deleteso many blossoms, Tigger does not look impressed though, no doubt he's waiting for the birds to show up.
ReplyDeleteThat is called 'looking down my nose at' ... in this case small humans.
DeleteLittle ones always keep us busy. Sounds like lots of fun was had. Your garden is definitely waking up now.
ReplyDeleteAngela
Quite a bit of it got trampled, but it will no doubt recover.
DeleteI think you like Tigger time and peace and quiet?
ReplyDeleteVery much so Dave - although watching from a safe place can be entertaining.
DeleteSweet cicely? Already? The south of England truly is in a different climate zone from Aberdeen.
ReplyDeleteWell done for surviving the young person onslaught!
Already! We have not, however, got any rhubarb to cook it with. F tried making Sweet Cicely flavoured vodka a few years ago - talk about 'medicinal'. I believe it was labelled 'yuck'.
DeleteBow and arrow??? Well, F really was not thinking of you then, Mr T!
ReplyDeleteThe arrows didn't have much 'flight' in them and the small arms couldn't achieve much draw on the bow. They were made in response to a 'Swallows and Amazons' moment when two slightly less small girls raced past at the allotment playing at shooting one another with bows and arrows; and Tiger was distracted from his insistence that he be permitted to plant the artichokes. His body language screamed 'let me join in' and the girls never even looked sideways - not even when he bounced on a stack of Heras fencing making quite a racket.
DeleteLittle humans are exhausting and then they grow up into bigger teenage humans and are wearing in a quite different way. Aren't holidays meant to be relaxing?
ReplyDeleteF doesn't know much about relaxing. She says he allotment is relaxing but she doesn't get nearly enough time to potter about on it, and that in itself makes it just another job to attend to.
DeletePS: Mr T, was that you in my garden this morning? If not, do you have a twin brother?
ReplyDeleteMr B thinks I do, but he lives in Southampton (where I was born). I do however have a lot of cousins. We are quite an International family.
Deletemiaow tigger, phoebe here while takser has lelt his computery thing on. hope you set some peace and quiet now.
ReplyDeleteDo you get plagued by small humans Phoebe?
Deleteif i were there, I would have been happy to stay inside with you in your window guard that keeps out little ones. Beau loves little ones, so he would be out there with them and You and I could be safe inside together giving each other company... the fruit trees and flowers and flowering trees, in fact your entire garden is beautiful... now we know spring is there for sure, you have all those blooms as proof
ReplyDeleteShooting at, or anywhere near, Tiggers is strictly verboten.
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