Freddie (guinea pig) has been on her own (– yes, she is Frederika –) for the past two years. She has managed to cope with her breavement with the company of rabbits and children. Last week, she was joined by a 6-week-old Caramel. She is so tiny and you can feel all her bones.
We are trying to make sure that the timid and fast moving newcomer is used to being petted by our little people.
In the last weeks of the term, we began to see thrilling indicators of all sorts of life reviving.
There were varieties of butterfly, including the peacock and fritillary. A toad! And the black bunnies seem to have multiplied, and some have made their home near to the gate to the plat.
Then the sowing and planting have begun in earnest. Potatoes, radishes, onions and herbs have gone into the ground. Seeds were springing up even before the Easter break.
And a deliberately located provocation was quickly discovered by an eagle eye.
