INEBG tea party!

Here are some friends who we have got to know from us all being members of the "Its Not Easy Being Green" forum. We hosted a tea party for them at Compost Mansions on a very wet Sunday in July.


We had a wonderful time, everybody brought LOADS of food and drink so we spent 5 hours and just ate, talked, ate, talked, drank tea, talked, wandered round the garden and wood, talked, ate more food, talked...I guess you have got the idea by now??



Wandering around the wood and garden, having a break from cake and tea imbibing...




Mam Miniog cuddles Ginger the hen ( I had to frisk her before she left...she wanted to take Ginger back home with her! )



This set me musing..Its strange (in a nice way!) how you can make friends with folk who you have never actually met in the flesh...a modern day version of a pen pal I suppose. Especially if you "meet" them on a forum where you share so many common interests!

2 eggs!

Ohhhhhhhh!

Henny has started laying now as well!! We are now getting a pale cream egg from Ginger every day and a speckly dark brown egg from Henny. Yummy!

How come hens eating eggsactly the same stuff produce different coloured eggs?

Well its very sad here without Monty..........

we have buried him in one of his favourite places, under the weeping pear tree in the garden..he used to snoooze here in the long grass and pounce out on us occasionally..........

so an end of an era for us...

all very sad here at Compost Mansions.

Sad news

Well I have some sad news from Compost Mansions.



Our number 1 puss, Monty has died aged 17.


Monty was born on 13 September 1989 and we took him home with us aged 10 weeks old.

He was the most delightful cat, always a bit reticent about jumping up on to our laps, he had very definate ideas about how he liked to be held and he didn't go to anyone but family, but he always came to see what was going on, watch and comment with his beautiful puss voice and come for a purr and a nose rub. He came out for walks with us, comforted us when we were ill or unhappy and gave love and affection freely. He was also a mighty mouser (when he could be bothered) and a champion fly catcher in his youth.

Our vet has been marvelous with him since he became ill with Hyperthyroidism in March 2007, but sadly last Thursday he also began to show signs of congestive heart failure. We tried some new medication but it became apparent yesterday evening that the end was probably in sight.

Monty died peacefully last night, slipping quietly away with a purr whilst Mr CW and I stroked him and talked to him and told him we loved him.

R.I.P. old friend, you will be much missed by all of us here....

In the garden today...

Today I mowed the paths round the pool and down into the wood, the clearing under the big oak tree and all round the veg patch.

Round the pool
The pool


The view back to the wood

Into the wood

The clearing under the big oak tree












I filled up 6 compost bins with alternating layers of hay and chicken/ guiunea pig poo, grass clippings, paper and card bits and weeds..that will make a nice hot heap!












and I watered all the plants in the polytunnel ( but I do that every day) potted into final pots some more aubergine plants and a melon, tied up the cucumbers AND Mr cw watered the spuds ( so I can mulch with grass clippings tomorrow!)








phew! a busy day!