oh this fickle weather. You just never know when you can put the thermals away.
I spotted the common morels again this year but a metre or so over from where they last appeared. It is always lovely to see fungi in the garden. I often go around the garden looking for slugs and it is a great opportunity to find unexpected things popping up in the garden. I noticed also that the ragged robin hasn’t appeared yet so I don’t know if it has died, along with the blue poppies and the bronze fennel.
While I was on the patio I spotted a pigeon, just sitting having a wee soak in the pond, he then started splashing about having a real bath. I took a pic from upstairs of some of the back garden. I am finding it more difficult as the years go by to push over the grass, especially when it has been raining, so we will be getting more slabbing put down in June sometime. I don’t want to have a lot of slabbing but it will make gardening easier and a lot less messy. At the moment, every time I come in from the garden, I have to get a stiff scrubbing brush on my wheelchair tyres, and also an old towel, to get most of the dirt from my tyre treads before going into the house proper. The new slabs won’t prevent me getting pigeon poo in my tyre treads though, and it can be very tricky trying to dodge them. The grass is also very uneven and some of the slabs we put down years ago have actually sunk as they were only put down onto sand.
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Morchella esculenta (common morel) |
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Morchella esculenta (common morel) |
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Pigeon in the pond |
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May 2019 |