This the view from the kitchen window. On the bird table I have seen many coal tits, chaffinches, blue tits, robin/s and one siskin. The blackbird comes to the window sill and is nesting in the leylandii hedge which is the dead brown bit you can see on the left edge of the picture. The garden is a little haven for small birds but we also have a rather large pheasant that hangs around the boundaries, pulling leaves off bushes and squawking. Our neightbours fance a bit of slow roast pheasant as he is quite destructive in thei more open garden.
There is hedge behind the greenhouse then a "plantation" which is rampant weeds and too many trees. This will change by next summer. This plantation will be full of snowdrops then bluebells in the spring, and they will stay but they will have to share the soil with a few more things like cabbages and hens!
The table and chair are a testamnet to the dry weather we have here. A very nice man who came to take away some of Dad's magazines said, "I come from the West Coast and Grantown does not have rain." Of course we do, it isn't Kent, but it is nice to have a more sheltered climate than either the west of Scotland or Sandal Farm.
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