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  1. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    A friend of ours put green carpet tiles down.
  2. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Friend has given me his parents' old bird bath. I was touched, he is moving to Brum soon to a flat. It has a faded inscription, in the sun or in the rain wherever you are you are closer to God in the garden. Or something like that. A robin used the old bird bath today in the pouring rain. He has...
  3. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    I think so and the Balsa wood ones with cardboard wings and you weighted the nose with a penny.
  4. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    I still am. Our grandchildren are too if they were only allowed to be. The little one loves playing with the jumping frog, from a Christmas Cracker. We have a reserved table sign and we flip it to each other over that. He has a ball which has sections and you squash it down and it springs back...
  5. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Maybe if and when it flowers we will know then.
  6. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    It has a scent a scent of fresh cut grass when you break it..
  7. I Am Nico

    Trafalgar road moselely

    I bet it hasn't changed that much. ? We used to park there doing my Birth Family research. My birth mother rented a room from a pious old so and so in the 50s. Who openly opened her mail and read it. Then told her to leave as she didn't want women of that sort staying there. She had read the...
  8. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    We have a sort of vine appear to if I can get it on here I will try. The leaves are about 3 inches long heart shaped but more like a tongue. I wonder if some of them come from the supposed seeding free bird seeds. As we get corn growing too.
  9. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    A builder got me some old ones they are the blue type.
  10. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    We have what I think is hyssop hyssop? It appeared in a rose's pot about 5 years ago. It's pink small and trailing. Slight smell. And what I thought was cosmos that won't flower my partner says is dill, appeared. That smells nice.
  11. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Beautiful garden I have a thing about old coping stones
  12. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    We usually get some left but not this year. Everything is topsy turvy. But we did get some new flowers appear. I looked one up. Hyssop. I bought a verbena and a yarrow not realising that yarrow is a herb too. We had borage this year I am told its like porridge not boar ridge?
  13. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    They have eaten and in the process of eating all our climbing nasturtiums but I do like butterflies.
  14. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    We had nuthatches 2 years ago they are the only bird who runs down the tree trunk maybe that will help. My Brummie cousins had a green and pink pigeon, we looked it up it was from India.
  15. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    We get holly blues , very small.
  16. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    I heard of a green veined white, been reading about white and cream moths too and some have like dangly bits other wings. When I water in the evening I disturb them and butterflies.
  17. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Friend has a garden like yours, she boards dogs, so she washes it down but the garden is beautiful with trees and flowering shrubs a lily pond with frogs and a little rivulet that wanders round the perimeter with little bridges.
  18. I Am Nico

    BAB,when are you too old to be 'Bab'

    I remember a a line in a song on the radio, "Hey Bab areee bab, said the little wee bab, " when I was little. Was it about the Three Bears?
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