Nature Stirs

We have been basking under glorious blue skies (as has the UK)  for the last week. John has already told you how pleased he was to see the first violets, well, they have now blossomed into carpets, we have never seen so many. Furthermore, we heard the first cuckoo two days ago and yesterday the hoopoes returned and were active looking for nesting sites. We have not seen any deer in the garden for months and I began to think that the chasse had annihilated them in our immediate area. I must admit I had mixed feelings because I do love seeing them. Well, an enormous one appeared at the end of the alley on Wednesday.  They must know that the hunting season is over.

On more prosaic fronts, we have been looking for a source of manure and our friends Annie and Donnie kindly said that they would bring us a trailer-load of horse manure.  They arrived yesterday and we were delighted.

Meanwhile, the 'supervisors' were busy!

All we've got to do now is find some soil to put on top of the manure!