Plenty of Peacock butterflies on the plum blossom today, all out of focus 🤣🤣

I've woken up in a Hitchcock movie 😱

Beautiful morning to be a turkey

Moody skies over our fenland smallholding today. Looking forward to a few dry days as it's all getting a bit squidgy now.

70kg of daffodil and narcissi bulbs free from the roadside. Now just to get them planted. 🏵🏵🏵

There's a buzz about the place today

I planted these hazels and alders as saplings. So great to see them dripping with catkins providing an early pollen source for our honey bees to feed this year's young brood.

Much excitement today with the arrival of five new Point Of Lay chickens. Blue, olive and brown eggs available soon! 🐔🥚🪺

The baby onions are hatching. Don't they look cute.

Frostiest day so far here in the S Lincs fens. Pond area's looking chilly. Good for the garden's natural balance to get a decent cold spell.

I give you Dog Pilates.
Boris and Arthur love to join in. Most helpful!

Crescent moon and Venus shining brightly together in tonight's evening sky

Basket Challenge 2025 is under way. Practice makes perfect.
4 different wales used here plus a 3 rod chasing slew and French randing. A simple 3 behind 1 border to finish.

4 Resolutions under way 😁
Weekly basket started, first Pilates exercises done, Spanish lessons completed and annual shower taken 🤪 Stll working on the grumpiness.

It's certainly more useful than the sum of its parts - 100 sticks!
A few new techniques tried out on this one. New Year's Res is to make a different basket every week thru 2025 #basketmaking #willowweaving #newyearresolutions

Bad news. Santa got distracted by this fenland sunset and crashed before he'd helped deliver all my presents.
Merry Chrimbo all 🎅🎅🎅

Sunrise over the smallholding. I don't get to see this anywhere near often enough as I'm a bit of a night owl.

The whole sky briefly turned an amazing colour just before sunset last night. What a planet we inhabit!

Just back from 3 weeks in Chile. Was delighted to stumble upon a pair of White-bellied Seedsnipe near the top of Mount Tarn. Got this snap with my phone 😁