Mardy
Tapping some of the trees down in the wild garden this afternoon, I disturbed the usual crop of Green Shieldbugs and Harlequin Ladybirds, but today just one Gorse Shieldbug. This was a little slower than all the specimens I put … Continued
Sugar rush
A thoroughly dreich day was lifted by the arrival of the Boy Wonder and his mother – though B was taken ill during the afternoon, and had to retire to the sofa with a cartoon and a sick bowl. Assuaging … Continued
Larch Ladybird
What with one thing and another, this is turning out to be a crazy week. Today’s madness was the Boy Wonder bringing his mother over for a visit, and by the time I’d prepared a batch of chilli con carne and … Continued
Eyed Ladybird
I did a couple of hours of brutalist gardening today, clearing an area of scrub and then cutting back a philadelphus, and it all left me in an appropriately grim mood. My disposition wasn’t helped by the fact that there … Continued
Possessive
R and I did some more quite heavy gardening this morning, working on a rather tragic old greengage tree in the secret garden, which was blown apart in last month’s storms and has been leaning on other structures or lying … Continued
Playing dead
It was a brilliantly sunny, though very cold, day, and I knew it was likely that the owls would be flying this afternoon. But still tired after yesterday’s trip to Cardiff, and with a weekend’s Boy-sitting to come, I talked … Continued
