New Year's Feast

Inspired by this video, I’ve been making a new year’s gift for the Dixon Hill birds (and other creatures).

STEP ONE: Attach an ordinary kitchen splatter screen to a grapevine wreath and tuck in lots of millet.  (I really wanted to add lots of berried foliage too, but there’s a dearth of such stuff up here on the windswept moors right now.)

STEP TWO: Make a hanging heart from sunflower seeds and suet…..and wrap the last of the Christmas cranberries around the hanging strings.

STEP THREE: Scatter a feast of seeds, mealworm pellets, goji berries and chopped apple onto the tray.  Serve for the delectation of waiting robins, blackbirds, pheasants, wood pigeons, tits, crows and squirrels.

Christmas Leftovers

A big bunch of fresh thyme in the Abel and Cole Christmas veg box failed to find its way into the festive meal.  So today, it got turned into a seasonal bottle of frothy face wash instead.  A little bit of Christmas cheer for dark January days.

A Happy Bauble Christmas!

Fun on the moor this morning - a tree hung with dog toy ‘baubles’!  Better yet, the tree was giving them away...

Wishing you a wonderful and a peaceful Christmas Day.

The Fruit of Love

Picking blackberries for breakfast….and the very first berry my hand reached for turned out to be a perfect heart shape.  And, boy, did it taste sweet!  A little explosion of love for my tastebuds.  :)

How Planes Fly

How do planes fly? he asked

And she smiled knowingly

Pregnant with a secret of the universe

The angels carry them, she whispered

On lean, strong wings outstretched

The angels carry them