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I've been in the garden for most of it, training some trees (I'm having a crack at espalliering), planting stuff, sowing seeds, sorting out my pond and trying to keep out of the way of frisky, horny toads, getting my potatoes in, digging about (still finding huge bits of stone from the long-demolished toilet) and generally being a hoary-handed daughter of the soil. Spring is busting out all over, there are Bullfinches in the hedge and the squee factor is high.
I'm constantly coming up against bits of old china. Those Victorians must have been the most appalling butterfingers, the stuff is everywhere.
Wherever you are, whatever you've done with your days, I hope you've had good times, my lovely darlings.
I'm constantly coming up against bits of old china. Those Victorians must have been the most appalling butterfingers, the stuff is everywhere.
Wherever you are, whatever you've done with your days, I hope you've had good times, my lovely darlings.
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When you said 'training some trees', my tiny brain pictured you with a whip and chair a la lion taming... and I was wondering what kind of vicious trees you had in your area. Probably it's past my bed time *g*
And you have toads? Awwww! I've yet to spot any in our garden this year, but we have a wonderful newt infestation!
It's been gorgeous, hasn't it? It's going to be the very devil to go back indoors to the office desk tomorrow.
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Toads are ape shit crazy this year! The landscape seethes with the randy little buggers! We used to have loads of newts but I haven't seen any for ages but your words fill me with hope, I shall keep my eyes peeled. Not literally, of course, that would be horrid.
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The spawn in my pal's garden pond has hatched, and one or rwo tiny tadpoles are swimming around, though most are just hanging there... *and* she's got a couple of newts in there too! Though I suspect they'll eat at least some of the tadpoles. But she's planning on enlarging the pond later this year - probably the autumn, once the tadpoles are grown legs and crawled alway.
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Perhaps the previous owners of your house fought a lot? Would explain excessive crockery shards.
I have cane toads (which may or may not be horny; I've not asked them). Poor ugly maligned things. I should have a sign made up for my house, "Toad Haven" would describe it because, unlike most locals, I can't bring myself to kill them. What did they ever do to me?
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