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Autumn…

What a beautiful autumn morning it is here today!  There was a frost last night and the sun is glittering on the roof of my workroom, hen house and the feed store; it looks for all the world like someone has shaken a giant jar of glitter dust over them!
The chickens made me smile earlier.  [...]

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Garden visitor…

Shhh, don’t tell my Mum but we have a regular visitor to our bird feeder ~ a rather sweet little wood mouse.  However, Mum is rather scared of mice so we had better keep it between ourselves I tried to take a photograph of our own visitor this morning but couldn’t get close enough [...]

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You Belong in Fall

Intelligent, introspective, and quite expressive at times…You appreciate the changes in color, climate, and mood that fall bringsWhether you’re carving wacky pumpkins or taking long drives, autumn is a favorite time of year for you

What Season Are You?
How funny ~ this little quiz is surprisingly accurate!  I really do prefer autumn, although [...]

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I am sure you will be aware that many parts of the UK have been experiencing severe weather conditions, including terrible flooding ~ sadly, lives have been lost, homes and farmland flooded.
Please remember those who have been affected in your prayers ~ thank you (((hugs)))

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My word, we certainly are having some weather at the moment I’m beginning to think that we are having the “March winds and April Showers” all at once this month It has been much cooler, too, especially compared with the unseasonably warm weather we experienced a few weeks back
Needless [...]

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Making progress…

Another day spent working in the garden today ~ and I have caught the sun My Beloved and I have made a start on clearing out the far end of the garden, ready for building the bicycle shelter when he has a couple of weeks off work after Whitsun. We tackled the [...]

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More planting…

I have spent a few hours out in the garden this afternoon, settling my latest plant acquisitions into their new homes Once again, I have been a great source of entertainment for the chooks, especially Prudence who was obviously torn between joining her friends for the usual afternoon siesta in the hen house or [...]

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Feeling a little better…

Thankfully, that awful washed-out feeling is going now although I think I am still “fighting off” a cold It would be so much easier if my body would just give in and let the cold run its course, since I am sure that, as it usually does, it will capitulate in the end ~ [...]

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Painted box…

Close-up of painted box on display shelves
Originally uploaded by Tabitha@VioletCottage.
I thought it would be nice to take a close-up photograph of the painted box on the display shelves. Quite some time back, I bought a bag of cobbles and found the heart-shaped stone on the left in amongst them. I decided to paint the little terracotta [...]

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Water feature…

Close-up of no-longer-working water feature
Originally uploaded by Tabitha@VioletCottage.

Close-up of the no-longer-working water feature ~ with the no-longer-working clock, too! Some time back I had a string of aqua-coloured beads interspaced with tiny mirrors hanging in the garden which unfortunately got broken. So, although it is a little hard to see in the photograph, I have [...]

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