Chit chat stuff from around the garden and out-and-about

Well, my first lot of garlic is now in the garden. I wasn't too impressed with my pesky chickens coming along right behind me and scratching them out again though! They weren't after the garlic, rather just the soil that I'd disturbed - and then a little fantail started to flitter around the garden too hoping to get any little insects. So, after chasing them off a few times (and replanting the garlic twice), I put them back in their coop. They're all looking a bit bald and scruffy at the moment due to moulting.

I then discovered some Saffron corms in my garden. My mum gave me a handful last year, which I planted but kept forgetting about. A few weeks back my mum called all excited telling me to go down and check to see if the there were any flowers ready to pick, as she'd discovered some in her garden. Sadly, I couldn't see a thing and thought I'd killed them off (or accidentally weeded them out). But, when I was there weeding the onion patch I noticed them again (and pulled them up in case the chickens came along and pulled them out too!), but maybe I should have left them and they might have flowered?? So they're back in the ground again and hopefully they'll continue to increase in number as this lot already have.

My seedlings are coming along nicely, as well as my current seed tray. So far I'm having better success with the seeds germinating. Loving having my greenhouse right under my clothesline - it certainly doesn't suffer from lack of attention there!

Look at this cute picture I took while out during the week. Some elderly women at the local Arts and Crafts centre just down the road from had decorated (keeping warm lol) the trees outside their building. I saw them stitching them on earlier in the week.

The sun continued to shine yesterday morning, so the kids and I went down to the markets and bought some fruit and veges for the week. It was also a good opportunity to get the ripstik and scooter out of the car for a play.

We bottled up the ginger beer, so that's happily sitting and continuing to brew.