Blog

The pheasant now has a very devoted following in the form of one pretty brown and very small (compared to him) girlfriend.  They like the fact that a lot of our very large garden (attached to the house - the cottage garden is small) has woodland areas to hide in.  I have been feeding them with wild bird seed so they are getting much more tame although "Mr Pheasy" was not that shy anyway.  They are...

The daffodils are only just coming out (a bit later this year?) but the mini-daffodils are pushing out and the cottage garden has a number of spring flowers appearing.  Unfortunately the naughty squirrel dug up most of the crocus bulbs and I fear he got the grape hyacinths too...     Cottage Rockery   The sheep in the field by the fish ponds next door to Sansome House mistakenly thought I was c...

We have been fortunate in Ilmington in that we haven't had any REALLY bad weather yet and we are more than half way through January.  The shortest day was less than a month ago but evenings are already noticeably longer , especially on the bright sunny days we have been enjoying lately.  We have been enjoying daily walks 'over the top' - up Campden Hill, along Pig Lane and down Foxcote Hill via a ...

We haven't had a shop in Ilmington for a couple of years but, later this year, hopefully, in April a new village shop will open in Ilmington.  It has been organised by a group of people in the village so, although there will be a paid manager, it is a Community Shop which will be staffed by volunteers.  It is to be sited in the building which was the Catholic Church of St Philips on the Upper Gree...
Tag cloud