Get a grip woman!

Karmacat

Happy Birthday Suffolk Lass!  Have a lovely, lovely day:
👗 this is your party dress
🥐 this is your afternoon croissant
🍰 this is your birthday cake
🍸 this is your glass of champagne

Debsnewbudget

Happy Birthday x

greent

Happy birthday, S_L! 🍷🍰🎂🥳

rtandon27

Happy Birthday SL!!!  🥂🎂🎉🎈

trix-a-belle

Many happy returns SL!! xx

Suffolk_lass

Aw thank you everyone. I managed to go unnoticed on FB this year (a good thing) but I don't mind on here!

We took a bee hive over to our friendly neighbour farmer's yesterday and agreed where we will site it. No bees in it but we are set to go when we need to. We would expect the feral colony to swarm again this year and this would be a great place for them.

Other than that, a quiet day as it rained all afternoon. Lots of germinating seeds in pots and we had our first meat for a month as I roasted a chicken. It was an experiment and while we often go several days with no meat, going without felt too much like deprivation, when alongside my diet. We opened a nice bottle of wine and had a glass too.

Oh yes - this idiot filled the hole at the wrong end of one of the kitchen cupboard doors so some remedial work was needed. All looking good now and the sun is shining this morning so hopefully I can start three large ones off outside.

Rabbits seen in the garden so (sorry) the young chap with birds of prey (that feed on rabbits) will be invited to visit with his nets and ferrets this weekend

enthusiasticsaver

Hope you had a nice birthday SL. Speaking of birds of prey I saw a buzzard up close while out on my e bike in the quiet country lanes earlier this week which just swooped over the hedgerow and my head with just a few metres to spare. Incredible sight. 

XSpender

Happy belated birthday 🎂 I hope you had a lovely day x 

Karmacat

Suffolk_lass said:

We took a bee hive over to our friendly neighbour farmer's yesterday and agreed where we will site it. No bees in it but we are set to go when we need to. We would expect the feral colony to swarm again this year and this would be a great place for them.
That's fantastic!  Positive on so many levels.

Rabbits seen in the garden so (sorry) the young chap with birds of prey (that feed on rabbits) will be invited to visit with his nets and ferrets this weekend

Speaking as a realistic vegetarian, this sort of thing is exactly what's needed - local, chemical-free, and sort of permaculturist - everyone loves birds of prey (eg at country festivals) and they need feeding.  Ferrets are needed for pest control.  I applaud your choice of how to be rabbit free (do you like the meat yourself, by the way?)

Suffolk_lass

We do like the meat but the deal with the local lad is that he does the netting, the ferrets chase them out and he despatches them humanely and quickly and they go home with him. I might speak to someone else who shoots them.