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| A prickly Mahonia up my side return |
Somehow, a cold virus or somesuch has managed to get through the Host's bodily defences and take hold. I don't know how it happened because his immune system has been trained over the last few years with dirty, germy urchin nephew & nieces jumping all over him and smearing their filth & pestilence everywhere! I am not amused.
Anyway, after the paracetemol and ibuprofen kicked in earlier this morning, I took Bitey out for a walk and we ended up wandering along the prom - from where I took the photo above.
The rest of the photos are from the grounds of Hexenhäusli Device, and show what few flora - and fauna - can be found at this time of year.
A male muntjac on the embankment behind the South Lawn
A female muntjac. Sorry about the poor quality - this was taken through dirty glass
Snowdrops (and sprouting daffodils behind them)
Hellebore somethingorother
Oh, almost forgot: The point of the flowers in this post are as a little prompt to get you thinking about this year's Infomaniac Garden Photos Event. Is there anything Event-worthy in your garden - be it a frozen wasteland (Very Mistress?) a boggy mudscape (Ms Scarlet?) or tropical jungle (Dinah?) - at this time of year that it's worth taking a few photos of now before it's too late?
Don't worry if not as I will be nagging haranguing reminding you about the GPE regularly througout the year!
Haselnusswürstchen are already dangling everywhere. Suicidal magnolias are budding.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping that we won't see the severe cold snaps in Spring that blighted last year's Magnolias. As for Haselnusswürstchen (Madam A's done the translation for us below), I must take a walk by the old railway bridge to see if ours are dangling, too.
DeleteSpring is in view (I keep repeating the mantra, in the hope we don't get a repeat of last year's late, killer, frost)! The bulbs here are moving, too, and the Sarcococca is scenting the air, so the signs are optimistic... Jx
ReplyDeletePS I thought squirrels were bad enough, but - muntjacs!?
PPS Glad to hear you're over the "dreaded lurgy"...
DeleteYes, the muntjacs can't get into the back garden, but they have decimated quite a lot out the front - including the beautiful crocuses that had just started blooming in the front lawn. They've eaten all the flower heads off!
DeleteAs for the lurgy, turns out it was probably covid! Still, I'm over it now - the headache and nausea finally disappeared yesterday.
Well, some things are putting on a mild spurt (no flowers yet), but the heat has done fer most of 'em, gardener included!
ReplyDeleteA gardening friend over in Suffolk has had muntjac for years...still has a fabulous garden!
Then your gardening friend must have had all the muntjacs stuffed!
DeleteI hope you get some cooler weather soon so you - and your flowers - can come out.
Lovely pictures! As if I don't have enough things to do, I've decided to try growing veg this year in containers higher than our rabbits can jump, I think, I hope! They're pretty brazen. I've got big plans in the yard beyond that too so we'll see what works out and makes it into the GPE cut. In short, I hope to have new offerings for the audience to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteThis last week on Lost in the Pond I learned that the word "Fanny" means something completely different in Britian! I honestly didn't know that something so innocuous here would be so seemingly scandalous there. I'm bemused by the thought of some innocent American tourist mom yelling down a street to her adult children, "Don't forget your Fanny pack!" as they split up for the day to separate adventures only to bring the whole lot of Brits within earshot to horrified, embarrassed puddles of confusion. Bwha,ha,ha.
https://youtu.be/0IhHwqzHU70?si=35sXj-_dpTdJoziU
Ah, good old "fanny"! There was much tittering and amusement when, as kids, me and my sisters first heard Marge Simpson say fanny. On the telly! At teatime!!
DeleteEven now, the Ghosts take great delight in spouting various innuendo when talking to or describing fellow ghost, Stephanie 'Fanny' Button - which I've used as various blog post titles, such as: "She doesn't want to see Fanny on camera", "Julian fingering Fanny's lip", "Oh, no! Fanny's exposed!", and "These people came here for a glimpse of Fanny".
Good luck thwarting those bunnies!
P.S. It took me 10 minutes to reply as I had to watch that Lost in the Pond video first.
I'm so sorry to hear you're not well. Please try not to die.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mr Peenee. I pulled through just for you!
DeleteGPE sounds like some strange legislation like GDPR or something. Trouble with immune systems is they're bastards and I hope you're over the cold by now.
ReplyDeleteThank you, yes, whatever it was has left my system. Whether it left it in a better state than it found it has yet to be determined...
DeleteIt's been too cold to take the camera with me on my walks. As for your illness, have you considered that it might have come from the POOL?
ReplyDeleteThe pool? I'm of the hopeful opinion that all the chlorine in there kills off any rat-sized or smaller lifeform - including germs and viruses. Not that I've seen a rat in the pool. Yet.
DeleteDoes your shutter freeze open, Very Mistress?
a lovely seascape dear and your snowdrops are joyous.
ReplyDeleteI was intrigued by 63mago's comment on dangling Haselnusswürstchen which translates as 'Hazelnut Sausages'.
German is such a poetic language. I have now worked out it is what we call Catkins.
Hope you feel better dear
Ttfn.
While 'Hazelnut Sausages' is by far the more entertaining, I think I'll stick with catkins for now.
DeleteThe snowdrops really are lovely - and the muntjacs leave them alone, fortunately.
Oh, flowers! I remember flowers...they were so pretty. Back when it was warm we used to get flowers. The sky was blue then too. We're still waiting for spring here, clearly, and it feels like it's never going to arrive. Le sigh.
ReplyDeleteI hope your bulbs flower soon, Ms Nations. The crocuses are blooming, and the first daffodils came out here yesterday. We could all do with some colour in the garden again.
DeleteAngelonia are the only stalwarts Chez Dinahmow! The heat as knocked all of us sideways
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