A quick stop in my favourite shop, AG Lifestyle, which has a sale on - not that I
need anything, of course, but I occasionally buy a little something because I want the shop to keep trading. Buy
local!
A display dummy caught my eye - apparently just a normal
run-of-the-mill modern one, but with this fitted linen shift on top, so
that brooches and other jewellery can be displayed on the front. It's a
lovely way of transforming something quite ordinary.
In complete contrast to all the sparkly loveliness of that
place, I was at the wildlife site to help make some more hibernaculums
for the lizards and slow worms. Probably a bit late for this year, but
they'll hopefully be used next year. Lots of branches down after the
storms of recent weeks, so plenty of material to use - weaving larger
branches together, to give basking areas, and topping them with smaller
twigs and leaves to make a cosy space for reptiles to hide away.
It was such a glorious day on Friday that I came home, covered in mud,
and spent the rest of the afternoon in the garden, doing a little bit of
tidying up - so good to be outside in the sunshine, even if it was a
bit chilly. With the birds singing and shoots beginning to appear it
felt like Spring - but there is colder weather on the way apparently,
and we had a proper hard frost the other morning. This time last year we
had snow on the ground!
Fingers crossed they all survive. As well as masses of primroses just waiting
to flower there are still, what must
surely be, the very last flowers left over from 2013. They won't enjoy being snowed on...
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| ...and this miniature mossy landscape on top of the brick wall. |
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