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Diary – 2022 January
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DRAWING & PAINTING:
1 January
There were much more New Year's fireworks this year than usual and fortunately for us someone quite nearby had big noisy showy ones! But there was one enormous bang somewhere that must have woken up all the sparrows and pigeons with a fright.
4 January
The first daffodil of the year, two months too early! But this one was in the driveway to a garden centre, so they had a big choice of early ones to plant.
8 January
Our resident robin was muttering happily to himself just outside the kitchen window. A group of starlings decided ours was the best birdbath, and they never care how cold it is.
12 January
We went to Pinner to see the shops, and had our snack in the Memorial Park, sitting by the lake.
There is a big hut with lots of budgies, all chattering and flying around.
Here they are all feeding at the trough, with more birds scampering around the floor to get the fallen seeds.
13 January
Today we went into Kelsey Park after some shopping. It was rather chilly but at least the sun was out.
Today my new mail order hawthorn tree arrived, in a huge box that was all air. Being a bare root whippy thin tree, the postman must have thought the box was empty! We planted it straight away. I have put some broken paving stones around the baseto make sure no foxes can try to dig it up, and also keep it from drying out in the summer.
14 January
This is a physalis, the Chinese Lantern plant, and there is a little berry inside each lantern. It was in the station garden at Rickmansworth.
Today we went to Chesham, a village in the north west of Greater London, although it is really far out into the countryside. We sat in the park to have our snack, and watched a kestrel circling in the sky over the hill opposite.
The lake in the park was frozen in places.
15 January
Today my string curtains arrived. They soon untangled when we held them up and gave them a shake. They are going up in the greenhouse, to hide us from the birds when we are sitting in there.
25 January
Our pair of robins sit near the kitchen window regularly. Here is Mr Robin, sitting guard on top of the tall pillar frame, looking for rivals as well as food offerings.
27 January
We went to Purley. The time is Nothing O'Clock here! Maybe they preferred to have the loft as a proper room instead of a clock housing area. We took a bus to Redhill, there are still stone cattle troughs surviving and they are always planted up with bedding nowadays.
29 January
Spring has arrived early at the garden centre.
I bought a replacement rose, this is Iceberg which has very few thorns and masses of flowers all summer. We are taking out one that has far too many thorns covering the stems very thickly. I put in these ixias around the rose, the corms look exactly like rather small crocus corms.
30 January
This Red Admiral butterfly and this hoverfly were drinking deep at the winter jasmine flowers, and getting the warm sun on them. A mild spell has brought them out, but it could get very cold again at any moment. At least they are now tanked up to survive a few more months of winter weather.
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