• How can I help pheasants escaped from local shoot survive?
    Hello, I have had pheasants in my garden, and seen them all over, they have survived a shoot on the neighbouring estate. It is very cold now and I presume they are used to being housed and fed. How can...
  • Nature's tonic
    In over eight years of writing this blog, I think I’ve only previously missed one Friday morning’s posting, and yet I’ve just been silent for two weeks on the trot. I have a very good excuse. The doctors...
  • BBC Nature
    Just found this on here interesting reading not for the poor birds though http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/20180091 Sue
  • A garden with nature everywhere!
    A couple of weekends ago, when staying with my mum in the Midlands, I offered her the chance to be chauffeured to places she couldn't otherwise get. She chose to visit a cousin she hadn't seen for...
  • Putting my back into it for nature!
    Sometimes in the garden there's nothing for it but to get physical! Who needs to pay gym fees when there are thickets to clear, ailing and overcrowded trees to be felled, branches to drag to be shredded...