Reasons to be cheerful

Plant more LadyA. First year I tried them I planted a packet, they all came up, we had loads fresh and a few frozen. Following year I planted a packet and just as many in saved seed. They all came up and we ate them fresh and froze loads as we were sick of the sight of them. This year I have learnt my lesson and did some succession sowing so currently eating the first crop and I reckon the second crop will be ready in 6 weeks. I won't have so many to freeze, but I won't mind that. As you know they freeze very well, but there is something magical about having them fresh, and its quite a short season in comparison to many veg.
 
MrsBiscuit said:
Plant more LadyA. First year I tried them I planted a packet, they all came up, we had loads fresh and a few frozen. Following year I planted a packet and just as many in saved seed. They all came up and we ate them fresh and froze loads as we were sick of the sight of them. This year I have learnt my lesson and did some succession sowing so currently eating the first crop and I reckon the second crop will be ready in 6 weeks. I won't have so many to freeze, but I won't mind that. As you know they freeze very well, but there is something magical about having them fresh, and its quite a short season in comparison to many veg.
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I could happily eat them every day! Broad beans and brussels sprouts are my favourite veg! But I've never had success with brussels sprouts here, so I just buy them frozen.
 
First three Swallow arrived at 19.40 yesterday evening and swooped into barn.
Then this morning a Willow Warbler had arrived overnight and started singing, the best sound of spring a Willow Warbler.
If anyone wants to check a bird song/flight call etc there is a brilliant site called Xeno-Canto which has just every bird you could ever want recorded on it
 
It's not just the Great Orme goats, these lambs were snapped in Preston.
No social distancing though
 

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Was chilly, windy and lashing rain here all day. Well, not all day. It was fine enough this morning that I diligently watered all my vegetable beds! Wasn't five minutes back in the house, when it started raining! Well played, weather. Well played! :-)08 :-)08 I did some sewing that I've been meaning to do for a while. Now, I have lovely new covers on my scatter cushions on the couch. Even better, the fabric was a bargain remnant. I got over a metre for €5, when the fabric originally sold for €30 per metre. And I made myself a dessert today! I don't usually bother with dessert, but I thought I'd treat myself, so made enough for today and tomorrow. And then I ate it all! :lol: An afternoon snooze, and now I'm off to watch a dvd and have a glass of home made wine.
Cheers!
 
Two - no, three reasons for me to be cheerful:-
1) On Sunday, while out for our permitted hour's walk from home, I heard & then spotted a skylark, within 1/2 mile of our house, over a farmer's field. My husband couldn't see it against the sunny sky, but he now knows what they sound like, at least.

2) This afternoon I took myself off for a rectangular (rather than circular...) walk in the nearby Kent Downs in the sun, & managed not to get lost for once.
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3) This evening I made some Tequila Sunrise sorbet (orange juice, grenadine & tequila to stop it from freezing too hard - that's my excuse anyway!)
 
That makes me nostalgic for the woods near us in East Sussex. Are they hornbeams, I can't quite tell, the trunks look right but am I seeing a maple/sycamore type leaf. Anyway, what a lovely picture.
 
Ah trees, woods, forests. I remember them.
More scrub, shrub and twisted, stunted apologies for trees here! ?
But I have got snowdrops and blue bells so can’t complain.

Tequila Sunrise sorbet sounds good. Now you’ve got me thinking. I bet Mojito sorbet would be good too.
 
I confess I wasn't trying to identify the trees. I'll have to go for another walk and pay more attention. Learning which tree us which without their leaves on is a useful skill that I could do with...
 
can't beat a walk through a bluebell wood in spring, a favourite spring sight. We have a wood near us which has a lot of silver birch, the bluebell's look lovely against the silver trunks.
Love a field of poppies also.
A nice spring picture for you, one of our neighbours lambs.
Happy Easter, one and all
 

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This definitely made us smile.
For the life of us we can't work out how Izzie got herself that airborne to get in the sink, she is no lightweight and is 6 years old.

But she often wanders around to the back door and just hangs around near us. But she was quite happily sitting in the sink, OH just said "shampoo and set madam "?
This is one girl that constantly surprises, and is a lovely soul to boot
 

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This is the famous Izzie, survived a prolapse, chased a Canada goose into the lake, dust bathed in thick gloopy mud. Tried to fly through a fence. All of which didn't end well.
But she is a gentle soul and very much mother hen to all who have come after her
 
She is a very lovely girl! She looks nice and solid like a Sussex should!
 
Thanks one and all, she is rather lovely, you should have seen her sister, I will find a pic.
I forgot the being beaten up by a Bluebell, who didn't want to "be friends", she looked quite stylish with a purple comb !
 
My girls have got a reason to be cheerful...20200411_110244~2.jpg

This'll keep them hentertained for around 24 hours... :-)08
 
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