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the garden is doing very well this year and is buzzing all the time what a difference a year makes 2022 2023 front side bed back top end back middle this pond was not even dug this time last year back bottom the honeysuckle is getting away well the bay is recovering well from the frost damage the other side of the back is coming along well but the acer is struggling with the heat that is the good bit the veg plot is not so good the wet then the sudden dry had made the shallots Lettuces and spring onions to go to seed carrots put in late but may make something only the toms are doing well John

my Mojo is still going strong despite my colitis flaring up bit time but i have had to adapt things a bit i have had to stop doing things like kits as i do not have the concentration for things like that due to the fatigue caused by been on steroids and lack of sleep I am find doing things like weathering rolling stock putting down flock and basic scenic work take my mind off the pain although running to the loo can be a problem some times always seems to happen when in the middle of gluing something John

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in our garden the young starlings are causing havoc they have trampled my shallots i will have to get more netting next year they have also snapped one of my tomato plants the sparrows are eating the lettuce they can get at through the netting I have not yet seen a young blue tit of goldfinch yet this year i would normally have loads by now Bath time John

for a water butt to be of use it has to rain my two 210 litre one are empty after just two weeks John

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The garden is coming along well the bee hotel is buzzing and nearly full the blackbird raised at least one chick and now started on the second lot the blue tits are still feed the chicks a lot the front side bed is coming on with the potentilla fruticosa erysimum and the red and white campions now in flower the main front garden is growing well with the marsh marigold variegated Ajuga and Aquilegia now in flower i have also added geranium Orion this is one of the cranesbill geranium and Pulsatilla vulgaris alba in the front by the path John

I have 3 water bowls in the garden all of which the hedgehog likes to have paddle in John

The Daily Mail spun the story to be an ASLEF plot to get TPE renationalised John

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Some from Waterloo East I got 3 out the last 4 Southeastern units I need for sight within 15 minutes of arriving I don't get that lucky very often I bet the last one will take me an age to get John

got our first fledglings of the year a blackbird and a robin A video of the robin

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the box is in the coolest corner of the garden under a large shrub i made mine out of gravel board I have since covered the top with plastic to keep it dry I also keep putting out dry leaves and hay for her to use Hedgehog house plans I also have a feeding station Hope this is of help John

our hedgehog is busy nestbuilding she had taken in so much over the last few days i am not sure how she still gets in

now the back garden the drumstick primulas are in flower the few wallflower the made through the winter are just coming in to flower with the elderberry now planted just be hide the pot the poor bay tree took a battering over the winter even some of the teasels have died the ivy's and the honeysuckle planted last year are getting away well bottom right you can just seen the poor rosemary that has died the drumstick primulas and the muscari are in flower every thing in this bed has come through the winter also have got a few self seeded foxgloves John

the front side bed is coming along well the erysimum is just coming into flower The Hypericum is coming along better got a bit battered over winter in the back corner i have planted a Escallonia to replace the elderberry as someone kept snapping the soft stems this is now in the back garden most of the oxeye daises died off over winter but i had enough seedlings spread over the garden to replant the bed in this bed the echinacea and rudbeckia have not made it through the winter the area by the path the Kidney vetch did not make it through the winter and the hardy geraniums have been moved to the back garden a lot of the wallflowers have also died due to all the wet