I spent a happy few hours in the freezing cold but glorious
sunshine, pottering around doing bits and pieces. Momma P has decided she doesn’t
want the purple pansy boards that I had been painting, so we bought new wood
and new paint and hers are now going to be willow green. I learned that I can
fit 6 gravel boards in my little car, so I ferried some up to the plot, painted
the other sides of them, fed the fox, fed the birds, and then went home to get
the next lot of wood.
Probably not even twenty minutes later I was back at the
allotment with the wood. The fox had been and licked her plate clean – 50p dog
food must be yummy – and in the process of sorting out the shed I discovered that
a something had been having a party in the bird seed. A large hole in the bag,
seed EVERYWHERE, and some little poops too. I started sweeping up, and then I uncovered
some bits of hessian sacking. I keep hessian in my shed as It Might Come In
Useful ™. Well I guess for this wee rodent it came in very useful; I found two
entrances to nests in the bundle! I pulled it all out so I could tidy up the
bits and then I found a shed spider or two, so I decided I had done enough
tidying. The loose seed and hessian bits went out under the plum tree, and the
remains of one of the sacks went behind the compost bin for something to use as
nest material.
I have been testing my new phone and its camera – I am in
love – I set up a bench about 5m away from the plum tree with the feeders in,
and I saw three great tits, two blue tits, two robins, and a dunnock. Then! I was
just sat enjoying the sun and an egret flew over!!
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| Great Tit and a Dunnock butt |
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| Robin and two Great Tits (snigger) |
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| Blue Tit |
David then appeared and we did another jaunt home to bring
up the paving slabs and the rest of the timber, so I still have loads to do. More
wood to paint, slabs to install, and then raised beds needs to be built. I have
also done all the hinges on the shed doors so it looks like Fort Knox, but I am
glad that it now all matches. They do look good, and were only £1.50 each.
I really want to start digging out around my fruit bushes
before they start to grow. I want to clear the grass, dig a trough around them,
lay newspaper or card down, then build a frame of bricks or timber and fill it
with aggregate. I need to stop the grass and brambles growing up around the
fruit bushes, but I can’t do any digging yet as the ground is solid.
A very successful day in the sunshine. I feel like I
accomplished quite a lot, but I have infact just added even more things to the
to do list!
