Sacha wrote:

On 24/2/07 17:24, in article , "Carol
Hague" wrote:

Sacha wrote:

We had a really huge bumble bee blundering against the panes of our bedroom
windows this morning.

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I hope she hasn't got out from under her duvet too soon, poor thing.

That worries me, too. OTOH, if she has been up in the eaves of the house, I
hope she's gone back up there.

Fingers crossed then :-) I like bumble bees.

We've had a day of intermittent rain and
very little watery sun though it hasn't been horribly cold, just a bit
dreary.

Similar here - but it was only the Thursday before last that we had a
fair bit of snow and on Wednesday morning there was thunder and
lightning so I'm not about to trust the weather much yet.

About a week ago or whenever we last had a sunny day, honey bees were very
busy on the Lonicera purpusii.

Haven't seen any bees around here yet (just south of Derby) but the
miniature daffodils are out in the back garden already and the cabbages
have germinated under cloches on my allotment.

Tète a tète aren't out yet though they're not far off but other varieties
are blazing away, the snowdrops are still going strong, plenty of Camellias
are in flower, so are Mahonias, Hellebores and a variety of other things
which seem to me to be overlapping each other much more than usual. The
Chaenomeles on the house wall is dripping with flowers.

Sounds lovely.

We haven't got an awful lot in the back garden yet - we've only been
here about a year and a half.

It's pretty small and a lot of it is taken up with a large pond housing
three goldfish that the previous owners left behind. Most of the rest is
paved, but we've built what amounts to a giant raised bed with a
three-brick high retaining wall at the from and two tons of topsoil in
it, which we had to carry through the house in buckets as there's no
rear access to the garden. That was fun.

There's a high brick wall at the back with tall trees behind (the area
behind the house is the village cricket club) so it's fairly shady.

Last month I was able to take over an allotment (complete with shed) and
am gleefully planning my fruit and veg growing thereon.

--
Carol
"Never trust a man wearing leather shorts and a plastic dressing gown"
- Spray, "The Dangerous Sports Club"