I work intuitively, and that includes everything I do: personal care, gardening, care of pets and children (in no particular order!!).
A few evenings ago I dead-headed the dandelions (they were calling to me). I need to strim the lawn soon, my bunny (bless him) keeps the lawn tidy much of the year but in spring there is always a growth spurt and it overwhelms him, he cannot keep up! Plus all these exciting herbs are springing back into life, emerging once more from the earth. How is a rabbit to resist?!

Anyway I was going over my lawn, inspecting it. It is about 6 metres by 3. I found lots of new plantlife growing in my lawn and I’m so excited! What most people think of as weeds made my week. Some I knew, and lots of other small plants I have not quite identified yet but best of all – wild strawberries! They are not even flowering yet, but now I know they are there, I’ll make sure I don’t mow them down with my cordless strimmer!

For the past few years we have had one or two toads. This year was their mating season and it turned out we had 4! Now, we don’t have a pond but time and again we have had toads make their way to the garden. They actually climb walls (our garden is walled on all sides, varying heights two of which are like 10ft!) A couple of weeks ago we returned from a beach trip to find two of the toads coupled up and spawning into our drain, so we rescued them and placed the toads and any strings of spawn that we could salvage into a large tank.

Next day one other female could contain herself no longer and started spawning alone into a shallow bowl of water we had set out for them. Poor darling, hers were wasted as she had no mate. It had become obvious that the fourth toad was also female, so when the first couple had finished and the male was croaking all day, I put him in the tank with the third female and within a few hours they were spawning too. By now we had a tank FULL of strings! When they were done I took them out. Now we have lots of tadpoles! My 10yo son is convinced he saw an albino one in there, time will tell – I haven’t seen it yet!

This has turned out quite rambly, but I just wanted to get it down as soon as I was inpired to write it!