Notices by Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)

We have this big piece of timber along the edge of our pond. It’s rotten and needs replacing but this is on a long list of jobs (it’s on top of a wall that needs to be reset 🙄).

In the meantime, a leaf cutter bee (or bees?) has been tunnelling into it to make a nest, a collection of individual cells capped with circular pieces of leaf.

I have a good excuse to leave this job on the list a while longer.

#bees

I got caught in traffic on my way home yesterday.

As the farmer thanked me for waiting, he said I’d sleep well 😅.

#Defaidodon #SheepOfMastodon

I had a much needed dose of nature today.

#walking #cymru

The robin giving me a look (and preventing me from finishing my coffee) because I don’t have any mealworms to hand

*goes to get mealworms*

#birds

Had a little bimble on my way back from getting my hair cut. A little spot that’s been on my list. It even has the remains of an Iron Age hillfort. No dolphins or seals today but lots of birds.

#FensterFreitag

#SilentSunday

A little wall lizard says hello.

A foreboding sky on my walk earlier but thankfully no rain. Well, not over me anyway.

TIL that a collective noun for snails is an escargatoire 🐌 🐌 🐌

#FootpathFriday from the Côte d’Emeraude, Brittany.

Me too Mrs Blackbird, me too.

#SilentSunday #BloomScrollingWithABee

#FensterFreitag

Edit: solved I think, thank you ☺️

#sewing #mending fedi help please 🙏.

A crazy gust of wind just lifted the garden parasol clean up in the air and down onto the back of a metal bistro chair causing a linear tear about 15cm long. I am not big on sewing so my first thought was to get some iron on tape/patch. But the fabric is polyester, which I know doesn’t play well with heat. Any ideas? If they involve sewing they have to be for a novice and not require a machine!

Thank you!

I am curious to see where our hedgehogs go on their trundlings and suspected they were coming and going under the fence into the neighbours’ field so set up my camera. There are SO many comings and goings. Some make more of a meal of it than others (for some reason they’re not using a bigger hole that the pheasants use 🤷♀️). Anyway I’ve stitched 3 videos taken over a space of 6 minutes. Hard to be sure but I think two different hogs - one in then another out and back in…maybe.
#hedgehogs

#SilentSunday #Moostodon

I tooted a week or so ago a pic of what I thought was my last apple tree to bloom. But I’d forgotten about this one. Mère de ménage which produces an apple perfect for the classic Apple Charlotte dessert. Chap who came to help prune was amazed the tree was still standing, let alone alive. It leans at an impossible angle and the trunk is more dead wood than live. It had a gentle prune to remove dead weight and it seems so much better for it. The bees appreciate it too 🐝💚.

#BloomScrollingWithABee

I just had to go out to the greenhouse to see if the solar powered fairy lights work. I’m pleased to see that they do ☺️ (especially as I was up a ladder in 40-odd mph winds to affix the solar panel). I can now potter out there after dark!

Hen Pen has come to tell me that I’m making this trellis all wrong.

She’s correct of course, it’s very shonky indeed.