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| Another beautiful sunset. |
The new tunnel beds are just about completed, just two pathways to finish.
Both of the longer beds are now planted up, one with spinach and spring cabbage,
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| Onion and garlic bed. |
the other long bed is home to forty garlics and one hundred and fifty onions, these onions should be ready by the end of May.
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| Lough Key Crab Apple flowering |
This month has been very mild and very dry, the garden is not sure whether it's Spring or Autumn,
we have a crab apple tree that has decided to flower again
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| Oct, and still Delphiniums bloom. |
and we have a Delphinium in flower. The roses are still blooming, and one of the Clematis hasn't stop blooming since May it's still got lots of buds, the dahlias also continue to flower giving me plenty of flowers for the house.
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| Latest project. |
With the shorter nights I have started a tapestry, this is for a cushion cover, I had intended to redo a seat of an inherited chair, but changed my mind, there is nothing wrong with the chair seat, it just need to be removed and cleaned, then put back again.
Trees are now getting lovely colour, it's a shame that once they change colour they don't hang on to the leafs for long. I love to see the Autumn colour.
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| Wagtails are back. |
We now have lots of Wagtails around, they returned in large numbers earlier this week. Of all the birds we get visiting us Wagtails are the biggest tease to the cats, they sit just out of range and time it perfectly to jump away just at the moment a cat is going to spring, we have never seen a Wagtail caught, they are quicker than the cats.
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| Robbie. 1999-2016 R.I.P. Old Chap. |
Earlier this week we had to say goodbye to Robbie, our seventeen year old Jack Russell. He had arthritis for several years and was also loosing his sight, he was also wetting his bed. It's never fair to keep an animal if it has lost it's dignity. He was the sweetest chap, never chased the cats or poultry, and was an excellent house dog. We will miss him he was part of out life for so long.
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| Still plenty of flowers for the house. |
