Just finished breakfast (2 Weetabix) and looked out of the kitchen window to find this fat, healthy animal eating the honesty leaves. We have rabbits in the field below the house, in the horse paddock next door and in the garden - I am always searching for new burrows.
Cuddly little things are they not?! 😩
To move on - I have just moved the rampant Green Alkanet brought back from Plockton in Scotland as it was taking over the cutting bed. R loves the flowers but it can be an aggressive pest. The plants have been put in behind the fence down to the Wendy House where the soil is almost non existent - it is mainly hardcore. I have picked the first camellia for R and it is now opening. It is such a shame they are not scented - so there is a challenge to plant breeders.
The quince has really got going now as have other shrubs. When I was digging up the alkanet I found four cuttings and it took a while (as I had not labelled them) to realise they were hydrangea Annabelle. So two were moved to the banking below the house and two left in situ.
It is a time of lush new growth especially the roses.
The sit on mower inertia has been solved by attaching the battery to a trickle charger overnight but we will see if that finally solves the matter. I have had both mowers serviced and received the bill - they seem to have replaced everything!
Go on - talk about coronavirus - surely there is more than enough on the tv and radio. Masks are of use where someone has the virus to stop them passing it on but not much good to stop you getting it. Having had 'flu' in 1957, remembering 2 weeks off school and being a bit decrepit it is likely we will all get it and the odds on survival are pretty good so we watch this space. Perhaps I should buy shares in funeral directors? Perhaps turn the top lawn into a plant your loved one here? At a price of course.
The world really needs a virus to get rid of half the people in the world, or more, but that is not going to happen.
It is a great diverter from other political issues - Boris must be loving this let alone Don and Vlad.
So what I want to know is will our holidays in Wales and Scotland be at risk? Do I need insurance?
My DW has her own blog at https://roseydarbishire.com. The last one was about Ben Fogle which has prompted me to add a new word to the English language - to fogle, v, to go to faraway places.
We had planned a spring trip up north for our 50th anniversary. We are thinking we might need to cancel. Oh, well, there is always next year (fingers crossed).
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