Hedgehog Headless Cherub

From Facebook Archives

3 June 2020 at 22.49

After seeing the hedgehog a few nights ago I've started taking a bowl of the day's rejected catfood and putting it up by the bower and the pond. It is always gone by morning, licked clean yesterday.   

This evening as I was coming back towards the house with 3 captured snail who should come under the back gate but the hedgehog.  It stopped and looked at me. I said hello, put the snails covered up in the trug so they can't get away, and came back in.   

Not sure if it was the same one as last time.

Fay  Given the choice of cat food or snails, you might find the snails still there...

Bentonbag  I'm hoping it gets the slugs and snails I don't catch.

Fay  It’s useful to put out a shallow bowl of fresh water for them in dry weather. 

He (or she) will pop in regularly if they know where to find food and water.

Bentonbag  Frog pond #1 and #2 and an old grill pan by the garage.  Somebody keeps knocking Bruce-the-headless-cherub into the pond.  I've made a ramp out of an old broken chimney pot so creatures can get safely down to (and out of) the water.

Fay  That might be the hog - they’re a bit clumsy.

Mrs Walker  Ben, I expect there's a story behind why your cherub is headless - and why he's called Bruce?!

Bentonbag  He's named after the bloke who was head of Woodlawn.  Once when we were sorting out stuff for a Summer Fair a terracotta cherub fell out of his packaging and knocked his head off.  As there's no way we could have sold him, I brought him home, superglued the head back on and sat him next to the pond.  Sometimes he goes a funny colour (mould? slimemould?) but it always stops at the neck so he looks as if he's wearing a skintight onesie.

Woolerwoman  I've got several of those large plant pot saucers around with water in and keep them clean and fresh. The hedgehogs use them regularly and birds use them as a bath!

Mr Mull  Rejected cat food - is one of your chaps getting fussy about their food?

Bentonbag  Always have done, it used to go on the bird table - magpies and starlings love it.

 

 

Mobile Snails Jubilee

From Facebook Archives

2 June 2018 at 17:37

Panicking because I couldn't find my mobile. 

It's in my bra - no pockets in dress

Mr Minor  Happiness is a warm phone...

Ms Elplates  I’m fed up with clothes without pockets.  New designs needed for the modern woman!

Dicky Brown  You'll never lose your ding a ling,

Mrs Leftfoot  Was it on vibrate?

Mrs Poet  Everything is always in my bra.  

When I first disrobed before my current husband he was confronted with a £ coin and a metro ticket.

2 June 2020 at 20.36

Torchlit snail patrol in the rain produced 4 snails, obviously coming out of their hiding places.   

Good to hear the water butts filling up.   

Everything will look much greener tomorrow, and there'll be less watering to do.

Woolerwoman  I should have put out a severe weather warning!  Sorry - didn't think yesterday but it's obvious now - the plumber came to me yesterday and fitted an outside tap - so obviously it will rain for the rest of the year.  Sorry.

Twinny P  This is what the snails in my garden have been waiting for; 'Night of the slow chew' as they attack my runner bean.  Expect devastation in the morning.

Bentonbag  Go out with a torch, never mind what the neighbours will think.  

My record a very wet summer a few years ago was 25 in 15 minutes.  You also chance to see a hedgehog or frogs.

Twinny P  The younger-son did a virtual scout camp in the garden and saw our hedgehog on his nightly ramble.

2 June 2022 at 15.18

I keep thinking it's Saturday.   

And that tomorrow's Saturday as well.  

And the day after ...

Mr Melodeon  No it’s Ma’am Day!   

Tomorrow is also holiday so it’s Calm Day.  

Or if you are having fish it could be Fry Day!…

Madame Fifi  I'm confused too, doesn't take much these days.  I thought yesterday was Friday.

Miss Doozer  I don't know the day of the week without looking at my watch and haven't done since Christmas 2019

Woolerwoman  Yes and me but don't know what day it is, but I do know it's cold and miserable.

Mrs BW  Me too.

Fifi D  I only know when it’s pay day!!!

Darklady  What’s so special about Saturday??

Woolerwoman  It's a bit like the days around Christmas and New Year, and the telly doesn't help!

 

I knitted the Queen for LDNE's Jubilee decorations and added the pair of angel wings when 

HM Queen Elizabeth passed away.  I wondered whether people might find it disrespectful but far from it.  Most years she is the angel at the top of LDNE’s Christmas tree. 

 

Charlie Fiver

From Facebook Archives

1 June 2025 at 09.27

How can I tell it's the first of the month?

Ferretfingers has just walked into the office, stark bollock naked except for the bandage on his leg, and handed me a fiver.

And it's a Charlie with a Churchill on the back.

Maybe it's time to change Churchill for someone else.

Perhaps Aneurin Bevan the face of creating the National Health Service.

Or would that be too political?

As if Churchill isn't political.

Mrs Quilt  That sounds a very, very good idea.  NHS is 77 this year.  I suspect that it has had as much impact as Churchill guiding Britain through WW II.  Not necessarily better but equally important!

Bentonbag  Churchill was very good at PR, presentation, inspiration and allowing people to get on with doing what they were good at.  But were it not for the soldiers, sailors, airmen, WRENs, WAACs, WAAFs, scientists, boffins, industrialists, spies, intelligence officers, codebreakers, landgirls and the fact so many people were prepared to 'do their bit' (irrespective of Churchill's speeches) we'd have been lost.

Mrs Quilt  Very True, But they just put the figurehead on the notes!

 

Gardening Days (mostly)

From Facebook Archives, from the first year I was on the site and last year.

31 May 2009 at 11.07

Have just had breakfast in the garden.  Fruit juice: toast with butter and homemade apple jelly; tea; and the Archers.  Bliss

31 May 2009 at 15.51

Have spent all day gardening and am tired, dirty, sweaty and have had too much sun

Miss Fiddle  Ditto!

31 May 2025 at 20.09

The Community Nurse called early yesterday when I was out with Thunderthighs at the dentist, so Fester had to deal with her (and vice-versa).

The bad news is they have run out of pico dressings but are expecting a delivery before Tuesday so Ferretfingers’ has got what amounts to a very large elastoplast, with sticky on all four sides.

The good news is the wound has become so shallow that pico dressings won't be applicable for much longer.

Yesterday Fester harvested the kale as it was preventing me using half the lawn.   

He fried it and there are now 10 chinese takaway boxes full in the freezer; each box holds sufficient for two people.

Today I hoed, raked and fertilized the bed and planted a row of parsnip seeds, a row of spring onions and radishes, and 40 leek seedlings.

At the Clousden Allotment plant sale he insisted on buying the bigger pot of leek seedlings.  So at least another fifty went in with the marrows in bed#1; which now only has space left for the sole pumpkin (still in its original pot on the front bedroom windowsill).

Thanks to Thunderthighs, the inedible kale stalks and flowers are now forming a nice thatch on the compost heap behind the garage.

After all that work, and watering, I had to lie on the bed for the rest of the afternoon.

Breakfast in the garden, when the weather allows, is my favourite way.