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Badgardener

Those of a sensitive nature, scroll on. Optimists may be rewarded for persevering.

Red, star of such posts as 'Would You Like To Talk To Me About Dinosaurs' and 'Chicken SWAT Team Available For Hire' - not to mention Tormentor Of The Cat - was attacked by a fox earlier this evening, in the back garden and in broad daylight.

If it hadn't been for Lily's yelling - a skill honed after every sodding time she's laid an egg, like it was a miracle of nature* - I wouldn't have gone running out to find the fox pinning Red to the ground, amongst a mountain of feathers. I assumed she was a goner, but ran back inside with her, to where the other chickens had fled and were tucking into some chicken-flavoured dog food, to find her still breathing.

Anyway, she's eaten her own bodyweight in sweetcorn, is about to get a bunch of useful drugs and they've all taken up residence in the kitchen. Apart from a bald arse she's essentially bloody but unbowed.

Whether the fox survived the ordeal is anybody's guess. Thoughts and prayers.

(*: It kind of is)

Red is on my left knee in the picture, but you knew that already.

#chickens #gardening #NotAllHeroesWearCapes
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A picture of three red hens. Two of the hens are sitting on my lap, facing to the left but staring sideways at the camera. Their expressions are alert and wary - equal parts on guard for any sudden movements which might involve distribution of food, and any other movements which might indicate me trying to stroke them, which is Not Allowed.
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Badgardener

Picture from one year ago today.

Terrific clients, who have a garden sited in a small but steep-sided hanging valley. Every year, from around November till May, the ground was saturated, with standing water a lot of the time - so they wanted to talk about drainage solutions.

This was the most obvious - just cut a winding trench from top to bottom. Hey presto, a stream! The water flowing through it hasn't been ducted in - this was the amount of wet previously trying to make its way down the garden, which is now contained and visible. Within a couple of weeks, the whole garden was starting to dry out. We estimated the flow at 5-6,000 litres per HOUR at its peak.

Work *with* the water, not against it.

(The large pebbles weren't my choice: I worry that they're over-large and obtrusive, but it will be interesting to see how they settle into the landscape as plants grow in from the sides. It's always good to get periodic reminders that the job is for the clients, not oneself.)

#Gardening#Landscaping#Stream
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Valerie Roney

☝️I am currently still in stare out the window mode my language center continues to be mostly offline. But when I get tired of trees and ravens I will shift my eyes indoors to something natural and lyrical.

I pretty much judge all movies based on the quality of their sky - which Ghibli movies do you think have the best sky?
#GhibliMarathon #joinIn
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knizer

I routinely do a boston weekend thread, and sometime friday (when i remember) I reboost the copslide video, and that continues to spark joy.

What's your weekly or monthly 'thing' that your followers remember you by? Or, maybe its your family, is there a 'knizer dinner hour' of 6pm always where the family gathers at the same table? An album for your commute home? Friday night burritos? #JoinIn

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Badgardener

Garden project from a couple of years ago, which is getting a bit of a revamp. I had a few bits of large, squarish stone knocking about - and no clients' gardens to immediately use them in - so dropped a sunken seating area into my own garden.

The obvious firepit is an old lorry wheel that got washed up on the beach, and rolled/dragged half a mile back to the car. We have so many firepit devices, though, that I turned it into a planter for orange/red coloured flowers (none of the photos of which survived a PC failure).

The chickens have largely turned it into a fort, so I'm planning a surprise diversion (mainly sweetcorn at the other end of the garden) to reclaim it. This may be an ongoing battle of wills.

A picture looking down into a trapezoid-shaped sunken area, about 18 inches deep and lined with stone walls. The tops of the walls are large flat stones, for sitting on. In one corner (far right), a big clump of Hart's tongue ferns is growing out of the wall, and in the near left corner an old lorry wheel has been set on its side and filled with soil. The base of the area is filled with brown pea gravel.
A picture of the same area, but taken from another side. Essentially, the photo is of the same things.
#gardening#drystone#landscaping
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