~ Slow-worm ~

Our cat walked into the house triumphantly with a slow-worm in her mouth and dropped it by us, then looked up as if to get a whole lot of praise! For once she didn't hurt it so it was a great opportunity to take some photos! This one has lost it's tail before and grown a new one... slow-worms are actually legless lizards not snakes and can't hurt you or we wouldn't have picked it up!

We've got a few in our garden, they mainly hide in the compost heap and under planks or plastic on hot days etc. They eat slugs and other pesky bugs so are great for your garden and beautiful :) The first time I found one in the garden I was about three and I picked it up and showed it to Mum who was hanging out the washing on the line... I exclaimed "Look Mummy I've found a big worm" I can just imagine her face because at the time she thought it was a snake and was 8 months pregnant with David!

After taking a look at it we released it into out compost bin.

Here is a video of its release... I just hope our cat doesn't catch it again... lol!

500 HITS!!!!!

I went out side in the garden and designed this 500 picture because I have reached 500 views (or hits) today!!!!! Half of a 1000 now! I hope everyone who has visited my blog has enjoyed looking at it :-)

*\/* Bonfire night fun!!!!! *\/*

On bonfire night we lit the pumpkins from Halloween and lit some candles along the garden path, we also had some sparklers. The biggest thing that we did was make a...... BONFIRE!

Making the bonfire out of bits of unwanted wood around the garden, our cats were very interested in it as you can see! We locked the cats in the house when we lit the fire or we would have had roast cat!

Starting the fire, we had to give it a good puff of wind!

The candles along the path, they look like they are floating in the air!

Please note that it was warm enough for us to be outside in short sleeved T-shirts in November! Strange weather! The fire helped with warmth a bit of course!

When the fire got going we had to stand well back at it was a big fire! Scary yet beautiful!

~~~~ In close! ~~~~

********** REALLY HOT! **********

*~*~*~* Sparklers! *~*~*~*

big number 6! Swishhhhh!!!!!!

***** FIREWORKS! *****

Wheeeeeeeeeee.... BANG......BANG!

Quietening down now.....

Where has all the wood gone??? The ashes sparkled and moved like it was alive, I was half expecting to see a Phoenix pop out all smoldering and hot!

The first frosty morning!

There was the first frost of Winter this morning. The clocks have changed and it is getting very cold :-{ I wrapped up warm and crept outside into the garden with my camera at hand! The frost was magnificent! As I walked past, the garden path seemed to glisten as if someone had poured glitter everywhere! The frost seemed to have touched every leaf so delicately. Jack frost really must be magic ;-)

The picking of the apples!!!!!

We have an apple tree in my back garden, it belongs to my brother. My Grandad gave it to him when he was really small and now it has grown into a nice little tree! This year we have had our second bumper crop of apples and we picked most of them today!



My brother picking his apples!



Mum helping me get a high one down!



We found a caterpillar on the apple tree. I looked it up in our books. It's a grey dagger moth caterpillar. It gets it's name because it is grey and has dagger shaped markings on it's wings!





We picked 32 apples!
All 32 apples weighed over 2.5kg!
The variety of apple tree is Discovery!

Afterwards my brother made us a fruit salad with his apples and the blackberries from our garden! It was YUMMY!

Cat attack!!!!

I hung the jellyfish up to take a pic for my blog -

Then my cat noticed their tentacles wriggling around in the wind!

She got ready and ........



Pounced!

No jellyfish were too badly hurt in the making of these pictures! LOL!!!!