Flinging off the grey blanket!

It was a good job I took photos of all the lovely flowers when I did as, the very next day, we had downpours of really heavy showers which damaged so many of the blooms.  Since then, day after day, of chilly, cloudy weather.  A respite with some sunshine last Sunday when family and local friends enjoyed a BBQ Housewarming but, since then the cloudy days have returned until late morning today and what a difference sunshine makes!

We now have even more who have joined our family of birds:

Previously mentioned...

Blackbirds, chaffinches, blue tits, sparrows, collared doves, wrens, a jay, jackdaws, rooks, starlings and, overhead - house-martins, a buzzard.

An owl.

And, since that meeting...

Another jay, magpies, pigeons, robins, chiff-chaff, a pheasant...and a heron overhead,


When I saw a chaffinch close by it seemed to me it said "Hello, hello - pleased to meet you!" and, of course, the pigeons are always so assertive "I'm a pigeon, Yes, I'm a pigeon, Yes, I'm a pigeon, Yup!"

Seems it is not just we who enjoy our garden!

There have been a couple of delays in sorting out the rest of our belongings which we hope to have done by the end of this month. Once the base has been put down and a summer house erected, many things due to go into it can be cleared from the garage and maybe then we'll find those still-missing items!

Daisies of course are pretty but grow in the grass which has to be cut and so these will soon be beheaded as Ron enjoys his "new toy"...

Boys and their toys!