Waking early one morning in September, we decided to have a walk to the beach as the dawn was breaking. The tide was was well out, as the sun rose with the most beautiful sunrise which filled the sky and land alike,
Thinking about inspiration and theme for a handmade Christmas card for this year. I sat down with pastel chalks, guided by one of the images produced this:
I printed some copies, after adding Christmas greetings, layering a green card with red patterned card.
We moved into our bungalow over three months ago, we have been decorating and generally settling in . We have removed some of the weed resistant membranes from the flower beds in the back garden. There were some big old pot-bound plants which we moved into the flower beds. The ground is clay, with some pretty hefty tree roots in, we improved the soil with compost and mulched with bark chippings, The lawn is very uneven, with buttercups, clover and other weeds, the wood edging and regular mowing suffices for now. With pruning and weeding the shrubs are looking better, 3 pink hydrangeas are looking very pretty in flower. We love a water feature and want to attract some newts, other amphibians and insects, so last weekend we decided to order a wildlife pond liner. Made in Yorkshire and delivered promptly we just had to make a large hole in 4 inch thick concrete.
It was pretty hard work, we kept saying that will be big enough, then coming to the conclusion we needed to get more concrete out.
We now had to dig the hole, we separated the concrete chippings, from the heavy thick mud, the hole was big enough for the liner and check that it’s level too.
We carefully back -filled around the liner, with sand and the clay.
Since moving to Kent we’ve set our trail camera up. We’ve seen the neighbourhood cats visiting. Big furry grey cat, tuxedo cat, tortoiseshell cat and all black cat. More exciting is this healthy looking fox, having a sniff round the garden.