Continuing our theme of posting short videos to make up for the fact that you won’t be able to visit for quite a while yet, we hope that this little clip of Sue’s sailing boat on the pond might make your lockdown a little easier. The boat is quite amazing in it’s ability to keep itself going. Once launched I had no hand in it’s movement at all – there’s a short… Read More
Well, it’s certainly all happening down at the pond. The wildlife are almost taking over. After the millions of tadpoles came the newts, popping up to the surface for a breath of air then diving back down. There seem to be more great diving beetles this year including some smaller ones which I take to be babies, or more probably something altogether different. Then a couple of weeks ago we started to… Read More
As you will know, we pride ourselves on our wildlife friendliness. But is all wildlife as friendly as we’d like? We know that our local badgers have a liking for the occasional tulip bulb – OK, have a liking for a LOT of tulip bulbs – but have they now forsaken vegetarianism for a liking for a bit of flesh and blood? Over the past few nights there’s been a lot of… Read More