Category: Nature
The natural world – flora & fauna.
Kapiti Island, 5km off the coast just north of Wellington has been a nature reserve since the 1950's, and has been free of all introduced mammals since the last possums were eradicated in 1996...
Anna and I filled a spare morning doing jobs around the garden.
The chancellor having increased the cost of everything again, it is time to make some progress with the effort to become more self-sufficient
The first sound of a Curlew....
This little critter had got into the house somehow and was happily munching on our store of bird food before we caught it and then released it some distance from the house...
This week we had the help of Pete and Tish in the garden. They worked like trojans.
Being a bit (okay, a lot) of a grown-up kid, I planted a load of sunflower seeds this summer...
In a throwback to WW2 and following Gordon's plea (and heavy taxes) to be green, we have begun the task of feeding the whole of Cumbria with our own vegetables...
A close up of one of the hedgehogs!