Thursday 26th May 2011
A lovely start to Wednesday morning found Dave, Chum and I taking what has become our usual route, on our way to me being dropped off in Spofforth. It ticks many boxes, being traffic free,( it is an old by-pass ), lined with fields of crops for Dave to keep an eye on for his work, and absolutely stuffed with nature. Oh and Chum likes the country smells too! Today's pictures show what we found, a poppy in the rape-seed field and a caterpillar nursery.
At Diana's we first took the customary tour of just what has changed since last week, then we got down to tidying up a neglected flower bed. I rescued plants and Diana potted them up. It was a perfect chance for her to explain nodal and inter-nodal cutting techniques to me. Then the clearing began in earnest, digging over and removing tough old roots. The hard work was more than compensated for by a blackbird, who worked alongside me, collecting grubs to feed his brood. I started throwing tasty morsels in his direction, which he took with great relish, it was a good symbiotic relationship!
"And let them pass, as they will too soon, with the bean flowers boon, and the blackbirds tune, and May and June!"
Robert Browning
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