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The hyacinths have been so wonderful this year that I couldn't resist sharing their beauty.  I wish you could smell them too!  Here are some in a bed by the entrance gate to the House and Cottage.  In summer, this is a rose bed. At the entrance gate the Kerria japonica is just about to burst forth as is the cherry tree in the courtyard.

The old copper kettle is now occupied. I thought it was empty because it is very high up.  So I took a photograph holding my camera from above and this is what I saw!   Mrs Robin got a bit of a surprise (as did I!) because I was using flash, hoping to find a nest and eggs.  I didn't realise she was there.  However, she did not fly off and I left her some meal worms as a treat.

In the field next door to Sansome House are ewes and lambs of mixed breeds.  The ones with the completely brown, almost black fleeces are, I think, Welsh mountain sheep.   Many of the ewes have twins.  We walk through this field regularly (it is a public right of way) and the sheep are very tame so happy to be right up close to pose for pictures!
Tags: Sheep . lambs .

Last year, in the summer, we were delighted when a pair of robins nested in one of our stables. The stables do not have horses in but are used for storage and this stable housed the lawn mowers and garden tools. There was an apple picker lying with the canvas part in a bowl so it made a sort of tent, on a table in there and this was the spot chosen for the nest.  In order to give the couple peace ...
Tags: Robin . nest . baby birds .

Spring arrived suddenly in the second week of March and we seem to be speeding through it.  It was so warm last week (warm enough to have Sunday lunch outside, as if it was a beautiful day in May!) that the dafffodils, which had appeared about a week before, were budding, opening and dying rather too rapidly.  I am hoping that the spell of cooler weather we have been having for the last few days w...
Tags: daffodils . Spring . Ilmington . blossom .
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