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  1. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    We lost the lavender maybe that's why. The little bees goes for the spiked speedwell and cotoneaster, that was poor this year but we had some renovations done and the workers damaged a lot. They had no regard for the garden at all. They like the golden rod though. The hollyhocks were poor this...
  2. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    If my balsa wood plane went over in to Nan's neighbour we Would never get it back so grandad had a go at him. He was very odd. He used paint tins of Ostermilk. Then he had a granddaughter but she didn't visit often. Ingrid. That's when new Christian names started creeping in. I remember having a...
  3. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Very few bees here but the butterflies had a late splurge hardly any flies, plenty of spiders all coming in and a slug keeps coming in and I keep putting him out. Very few ladybirds. No May one bugs. We bought more insect friendly plants too. Noticed more gulls more fast food outlets but the...
  4. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    I used to make rudimentary aeroplanes with stickle bricks remember those?. I made a black one, dad said it was a Black Meg.
  5. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    I found the reindeer scary in Owens I thought it was real. I put Marks before for Santa but it was Owens. I never called him Santa either it was Father Christmas. Teacher said there was a mother Christmas too. Dublin friend said Daddy Christmas. Partner said Pére Noél, her dad frightened her...
  6. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    When my dad got made redundant I cut a job out for Father Christmas. I can't tell you what he said.
  7. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    Nan & mum hated cap guns my partner does now. Nan would say don't you dare.!
  8. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    I used to go three times to see him, Woolies Marks and Co Op. I thought he just moved around.
  9. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Will look at the leaves closely. It isn't Cats Ear. Our lilac tree was split in the storm today. I hope no one else had a rough time. Then a second upright came down I have tied up a 3rd with old hanging basket chains. It was a bout 10 feet high but it's now 8. We have what my partner's mum...
  10. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    My cousin has used his for a base for his pebbles
  11. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Ours is still baldy. We got another new flower it looks like a dandelion but the leaves are long and plain.
  12. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    A friend of ours put green carpet tiles down.
  13. 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...
  14. 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.
  15. 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...
  16. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

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

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    It has a scent a scent of fresh cut grass when you break it..
  18. 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...
  19. 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.
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