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  1. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    My sister in Spain rescues animals. They do understand they wont come out. Last year in France it was so hot our friend's cat was sick, friend had a small new build bungalow it was like an oven. The floors are tiled and she was trying to cool her with ice packs.
  2. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    A speckled wood always lands on the white plastic ancient garden chair by our kitchen door. My mum always sat there. I like to think it's her. I was told butterflies are very spiritual I know it sound far fetched but......I had a colleague John -Paul who passed away in his twenties. Our boss...
  3. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Maybe rosebay willow herb will grow there. It's under a laurel and the apple tree. And I got it off the ,internet and chives, just wary eating that now. And visiting cat has sprayed on it. Where it looks like powdered cement is under the window. Cats are having a field day in there.
  4. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    We had some work done and there is tuns of silicone render in lumps chipping size and like sand in the earth. The flowers are coming back through . There are patches of it on the earth and grass. I tried watering it, I have raked it. Have you any ideas please? It says it's not harmful to animals.
  5. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    I had to look him up, I am maybe more Monty Don or Percy Chucker as my uncle called him. Partner can't bear Mr Titchmarsh. She likes a mature lady.Lyn? I shelled the broad beans but we don't know if they are safe to eat as they just appeared. So we have left them for the birdies and beasties.
  6. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Beautiful. We have wild ones but they don't smell
  7. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    I make up for this.
  8. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Very pretty. So is the borage that appeared this year and the broad beans. The no seed bird food keeps seeding with corn. We have some new flowers but I will have to see when they open as to what they might be. Might be musk mallow very feathery leaves. I had to get the magnifying glass out for...
  9. I Am Nico

    Radio

    I remember them coming and asking my mum for a request. One of her renal nurses used to sing all the time.
  10. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    We get goldfinches these past 3 years or so, quite a few don't know why,. no more chaffinches or greenfinches. Old Next door used to have an aviary which attracted wild birds including sparrow hawks. I went for a walk and I noted more than 3/4 of the front gardens are all covered in some shape...
  11. I Am Nico

    Radio

    Wonderful. I can remember the naughty playground rhyme, going off topic. Walking in the jungle got the belly ache etc. On topic could hospital radio operators plays what they wanted?
  12. I Am Nico

    Radio

    Is down in the jungle something stirred, different? That has flashed in my mind, dad used to whisper it to me. But he didn't carry it on!
  13. I Am Nico

    Radio

    Our friends met through hospital radio, in Coventry, he was operating it, she was a volunteer and they got married.
  14. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Relations in Canada get in their gardens blue jays, cardinals and black squirrels. Coyotes, foxes white tailed deer. One says they had cougars and bears, another said that's rubbish, they did agree on the wolves, & racooons under the decking, wolves under a house on stilts,. Depends where they...
  15. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Any ideas Richard, it is not his partner's little shitzu, she isn't allowed in the junk yard part.? Or the shitzu Badger friend also gets muntjac and foxes in her garden. She feeds everything including rats. We get holes dug sometimes, squirrel size holes or fox dug holes, small, in the...
  16. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Coventry suburb. I am wondering if we have badgers or maybe foxes are very strong? Our barmy neighbour built an ugly 8ft fence some time ago with the bad side on our side. He left a gap of 6 inches rising to 2 feet underneath. He has made a junk yard about 20 ft by 15 feet in part of it, hidden...
  17. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Baby birds are still alive I think there are four now, blackbirds, one hen feeds one that we can see cock feeds two and he feeds one out of sight. Baby robin too. Not as many birtds this year or butterflies. We have had work done outside twice it has put them off a bit. And 5 cats who visit...
  18. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Our wildlife I mean, we don;t have badgers, we do have birds foxes mice and squirrels and bats.
  19. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Oh dear, it just contains wholemeal flour and no added sugar made for toasting.. Won't feed anymore. We have 2 bird boxes up, squirrels broke the feeder have it on an upturned pot for now. Mate is giving me his late parents' bird bath as he is moving to Brum. in a flat. Partner had some hammer...
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