Of Waterfalls and Wooden Planks (by sarah)

After the heavey rain the plank of wood that goes over the top of the waterfall to raise the level of water in the water garden (the pond) was missing - we found it at the bottom of the water fall - here are some pics of Alaric and Babara getting it back out again.

Clearing the dead stuff (by sarah)

End of April and the beginning of May we discovered is the time to clear out all those dead plants and things that sit there in the flower beds dwarfing the flowers that they were last year.

You snap the dead stuff off which is really easy most of the time and then its bomfire time which as pyros is fun 🙂

Jean decided to help 🙂

New Turf Path (by sarah)

Over six week ago now we cleared our veggi plot and split it in half with a turf path - mainly becuase I couldnt reach things easily to water/weed them - the trueth is I still struggle slightly with this but the path has made things alot easier. Here are some photos of the process - complete with Jean 'helping' 🙂

Poor Betsy (by sarah)

Betsy who is Barabaras Black cat (often mistaken for Minni) had to have lots of teeth taken out about a fortnight ago and has not been very happy since - she turned up on the door step and appeared to want food so I gave her some cat treats. Poor thing seemed all eger and then just started pawing at her mouth instead of eating them up - Barabara says this is what she does with food now 🙁

On top of that the kittens keep sneeking into the Mill and eating all her specially prepared food! And then the little beasties have been beating her up as well - as its obvious she's unwell and there fore is losing her dominant position in the strange and complex cat hieracy.

Things that go Bump in the Night (by sarah)

There was a huge racket - cats sounding like they were doing some serious damage to each other so bravely armed with a Mag Lite I went out (after switching on the out door light and noticing Barabara had come out of the Mill).

Tim chased a sorry looking Betsy passed my door with Barabara shouting at him, I shouted at him and they belted passed me. They jumped over the stream.

Then to the realisation - Barabara thought that Tim was beating up Minni - Minni however was sitting on our setee, I thought it was Betsy who was sitting in the Mill - no it was a third Black cat - dadadadum!

On top of that the padlock off the stable mysterously disappeared a few days ago and today the heater fell off of Barabaras wall hav ing her question weather there is a poltergiest about - but then there were two really low planes zooming over us today as in enough to make things rattle - I didnt think they were allowed that low :/

But I have to say that the padlock is worrying especially as I swear the other night that someone was tapping on the window but when I finially got up the curage all there was was H and He sitting on the window sill and wormery looking over towards the padock.

In fact this had me so shock that today when I kept hearing someone knocking and getting to the door and finding no one there I started to really panic - but it had just been Barabara being to impatient and going off and gardening up on the lawn bit thinking she would see me if I came to the door!

Of course this all happens on evernings and days when Al isn't here :/ Sigh.

Jean doesn't help by standing up and pointing to the window going 'eye, eye!'

Oh and I apparently saw May bugs tonight - they are large and browny orange and the kittens keep pouncing them. I mean large.