Fantastical bird

I've been having fun today making a fantastical creature to frighten off the real birds who seem intent on feasting on the peas on my newly acquired allotment before I even get a look in! Let's home this hybrid textile beastie works! As a belt and braces tactic I have also magicked up some netting in a yurt formation!

Bunny 6 Brassica 0

The Villain of the Piece

The Victims

Hmmmmm this is a bit of an uneven fight: Yesterday my lovely allotment neighbour Maria gave me 6 brassica seedlings: broccoli and cauliflower to plant in my newly acquired and not yet planted allotment. Lots of work has been done in the clearing and digging department but no plants, so was DELIGHTED to recieve first seedlings. It seems that the local bunnies were even more entranced with them: not ONE leaf remained this morning. I was not pleased - much to the amusement of my other allotment neighbour, James!

And now for something completely different! Allotment

I am delighted to announce that after waiting for more than 2 years on the local allotment list, I have now got an allotment. YEAH!!!!!! It might not look much, but it has enormous possibilities. A blank canvas, albeit liberally studded with thistles. I will be scouring YouTube for Alys Fowler's (my garden guru) hints and tips in the allotment department. Being a textile creature by nature, I celebrated the news by making some flowery bunting un shades of blue to hang up in my shed. When I get one, that is. At the moment the only structure is a tool shed and I am planning a recreational area brimming with herbs and flowers so that I can sit and sew when I am not sewing and hoeing.