An intelligent looking Horace...

Tags: Dog

We got our first crop today,1 Strawberry Looks nice doesn’t it?

The rest of the veg are coming on nicely too.

We got some poppies off my mother too we just need to plant them.

Tags: Vegetable, Strawberries

Our pond Had a vist from another frog today, We did have some small frogpoles in but we think they have left now. I got a photo of the frog today.

Tags: Pond, Frog

I got a bit of video footage of a snail moving under water, Have a look it’s quite interesting to see. Click the image below.

Tags: Garden, Pond, Snail

Got up early today and watered the plants then spent most of the time looking in the pond. Saw a dead frog-pole so I took that out, I got a bit concerned about the rest of them and thinking the water might not be good enough, So I poured 2 watering cans full of fresh water in. I also saw a red worm like thing in the pond too, I couldn’t get a photo of it because of the reflection on the water. I got a photo of the dead frog-pole though.

Tags: Garden, Pond

Just been on our walk with Horace, The swans cygnets are doing fine, They are difficult to take photos of by them selves, A bit too active and still a bit clingy but I did manage to get this shot.

Tags: Cygnets

We have built a flimsy support to fasten the mesh to that will hopefully stop the cats from using the beds as a litter tray. I’m not really happy with them, I want something a bit more stable but we did just use what we had lying around.
We also got more pea gravel and covered the rest of the garden with that. I think we need a few more bags just to finish off.

Tags: Garden

We have started to put down some pea shingle in our garden, We also have made our rectangular plant bed into two triangular plant beds, This has made it look more interesting and our neighbours like it too.

Tags: Garden

I think I will start to split my photography pages up into different sections, Not sure how yet but one idea was to split them into dates so every photo taken in January will be together, Mmm I wonder if I will be able to add tags to them as well then you would be able to view all the swan photos without searching through all the months, Something to think about there. Which ever way I do it, it has got to be easy to maintain.

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I decided to go for a night walk tonight, It’s been such a nice day today I thought I would go out one more time.
Quite a nice sunset as well, The swans were settled down for the night and the birds were singing their last song, Very peaceful.

Tags: Dog, Walking

The male swan was a bit protective of his territory today, I managed to get a bit of video of it. Moments before this he chased off what we thought was a fish. Click on the image to see the video.

Tags: Swans

Another hot sunny day today, So we spent the day in the garden.
Our first raised bed did not succeed, This we think was down to the fact we laid some clear poly over the bed to protect it but we still had slugs getting in and cats walking over it, So we decided to take up that bed and make another in it’s place and placed the little green house cover we got over that.
The green thing in the background is another green house thing that my mother gave us. We have got some more seeds planted in that. In the second picture on the right we have made another raised bed for the bigger veg when the time is right.

The pond area is coming on quite nice I like this bit of the garden, It’s now looking a bit more wild and we have lots if insects around it, We have 9 tadpoles, 2 newts, 1 leech and loads of little black things that i don’t know the name of.

Back in 2007 we where asked to do a video for my cousins band Last Gang, They had a single coming out called Beat Of Blue. We where only given a weeks notice and not told what they wanted till we turned up, We had 2 cameras and we filmed them play live, We tried to make it look raw and a bit punky. The light was low so we got what we could that night.
One thing we did do after the nights filming was to go out and film some police action, We underestimated how difficult that would be, We would drive around most nights listening for the sound of sirens then drive off in that direction hoping to get some footage, In the end we got about 8 mins of footage in about 3 weeks. Click the image below to see the video

Tags: Last Gang

Over the last 3 days the swans have not been around their nest, We thought that they might have moved away but this morning on our walk with Horace they were on their nest. This evening they were not too far from the nest, We managed to feed them and I got some more photos, This one being the best one.

Tags: Swans, Cygnets