Hello and Happy Friday to you,
It's been a busy week here at the Worthingtons. We've been working in the garden - leaf clearing being one of the biggest jobs. It's the cherry trees - their leaf fall seems endless. Also the EM has been busy creating wildlife habitats, photos of which I thought I'd share for
Annie's Friday Smiles.
This is his most recent make. Simply a pile of tree and shrub cuttings which, hopefully, will provide much needed shelter for the hedgehogs over the winter. There is this much more palatial residence for them but I don't think they have been tempted up to now.
To tempt them we've provided some lovely new bedding just outside - how can Mr & Mrs Hedgie resist!
Bug hotels!
Toilet roll inners make the basis of this one. More straw has been stuffed inside. Now it's a 4* block of flats, ideally positioned on a trellis in the hope that it will attract some of the many solo bees that need to overwinter in a cosy place. That's in addition to this one that's been up for a few years.
And this bug hotel that we built about five or six years ago.
I think even Chris Packham would give a thumbs up to the EM's efforts to help wildlife through winter.
It's been an absolutely stunning day here - a sharp frost in the morning followed by blue skies and sunshine - so my heart goes out to anyone and everyone suffering the heavy rain and flooding in and around Matlock, Derbyshire, today. Stay safe and, hopefully, out of harms way.
That's it from me today. I hope there's been many reasons for you to smile, and if you have, please share it with
Annie too - the more the merrier.
Have a lovely, and safe, weekend.
