Spring has Sprung

Wow, what a beautiful day! Things are really happening in the garden:-

Good Things
We have masses of frog spawn in our wildlife pond.
We have spotted two adult frogs in the pond but think there must be more.
Bulbs are starting to poke through the ground and buds are appearing on the trees.
We have some interesting fungi on a log - quite beutiful.

Bad Things
Saw my first slug of the year - boo!
Weeds are starting to appear in the veg patch - double boo!

After nipping out to get the paper, I had a relatively lazy morning reading the papers, reading my book and listening to the Radio whilst watching the birds in the garden.

After lunch I spent a couple of hours in the garden pulling out dead leaves and plant around the pond, de-weeding the cast iron pig troughs we use for planting flowers, the herb patch and the veg patch. I also raked up loads of pine cones and needles in our main border - these form a thick layer and makes the soil underneath really dry if we're not careful. Throughout all this the sun was out and it was warm enough to wear a T-Shirt, wonderful. We had a well deserved Diet Ccoke break and sat in the garden chairs chilling out and enjoying the warmth of the sun.

Once it got dark we settled down in front of the box - I must say I think ITV really do have the upper hand when it comes to Saturday night at the moment, we stuck with it the whole evening to watch Harry Hill, Chris Tarrant's new game show The Colour of Money(which has me shouting at the telly) and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Take-A-Way - ITV are also sticking on a good film each Saturday night, this time The Bourne Supremacy. I think the Beeb need to pull their socks up.