Olly n the Boys, Gnuts, Passions, Polycave, Arch, and everyone else this...

wow! stevie!!! what are you feeding everything on! its all growing brilliantly!!!

love those passionflowers, they are just fabulous! vines look very good

good to see Gnuts!

and snail eggs too!!! they must be happy!!

breakfast looks very yummy.

hope those chickens are safe from Gnuts or do they just entertain him?

That polytunnel is going great guns..........any snakes in there?
Ah I see, gNuts is a cat?!!
You need my mega grape vine in there........could make wine!
How much tomato chutney yoos gonna make?
Just taken loads of pics of my garden this eve.............

I think breakfast looks fattening!! But a good all dayer!

yep cant beat your own polycave to get things going : )

No snakes yet but you never know (but i've regularly weeded it)
Gnuts likes to take a walk around or come over and see what I'm up too

Well Lulu thats what you get when you need to finissh the sausages and frozen fishcakes ; ) maybe a bowl of cereal in the evening as well

We got liver n' bacon tonight with a side order of grilled snake!

Passion flowers look wonderful...... Now please don't laugh ...... Do passion flowers produce passion fruit, the edible wrinkly doodahs.........

instead of black pudding???

stevie i think you should contact guiness book of records with that white passionflower ~ how far will it grow and how many flowers on??

i had loads of snail eggs last year steve but the fish ate alot lol, infact all my snails are gone now, what happened i dont know, anyway fab pics, love the one with puss watching chucks haha, lovely passion flower to :o))

Don't think they do Magnadoodle!! We should google it...

Not passion fruit Magna, but a fruit that is quite bitter.
Gorgeous pics Stevie, love the p.flower looking out!! You live in a great place, looks quite peaceful.

thanks folks, I am thinking of taking all shots at arms length looking backwards ; )

just to clarify for safety reasons, yes mega breakfast but the sauce you can see is ketchup and a tad of brown source and not brake fluid which is highly toxic

NB news flash will be doing only raw foods for july

a backwards looking blog???

raw food????

That was great. Your pasion flower is looking good and so is the arch :o)

Hywel, just added a pic at the end, on the left side. If you look at the gap between the trellis and the arch, the Bill Mackenzie Clematis fills that gap nicely. The pic doesn't do it justice as its nice n bushy and looks nice. Visually brings it all away from the wall and joins up all the shoots

its fabulous Stevie! should go into the NGS yellow book ~ the first trellis entry??

Great blog Stevie. I just love Olly!!!
Passion flowers is superb, in fact all of it superb. Thanks for sharing :)

I can see the photo ... it looks as if everything is growing in pots, and it's all filling out nicely.

Its all looking fantastic Stevie..oh those passion flowers! Wow! Love Gnuts she is cheeky eh?
Not sure about the breakfast lol..You'll get fat! Lovely pics :))

That is what I would call an idyllic way of life Stevie.
Cat, goats, goose, polycave (sorry forgot chickens) - growing your own food. Do you know how lucky you are? Some poeple can only dream about it. If I were you the polycave would be full of different vegetables (room for few climbers as well, lol)
Nice to see you getting more and more involved in gardening, your place is really looking better every month:)

Have lost half a stone Pixi, (and kept it off for the most part) and if I can lose another I will look quite slim : )

I have had one person swaer blind GNuts is a girl and one who is adamant hes a boy So its either GingerNuts or Ginanuts(as in nutty) either way GNuts is that special hedge cat

Good boy! lol I lost a stone! and i wasnt even trying lol. Still eating cakes and biscuits! but not that combination you had lol!

a stone pixi?
half a stone stevie?

thats fabulous, i must try harder!!!

Yeah..was on a proper diet about 9months ago..but then when Dad died and other things happened I just ate when I felt like it. Needed to lose the belly! its almost gone now..really need to exercise tho!

well done you!! gardening helps and you have lots of steep hills you could be climbing near you? btw how far are you from loch lomond?

I would recommend a job in a garden centre if you want too loose more than a stone, lol. Especially in spring. Have to invite myself for a coffee somewhere with a bathroom scale. Don't have my own:(
BTW - how many kilos are in a stone? Never really remember ;-)

Too many!!!!!!!!!!!
I think about 6.6 kilos to a stone..........

Nah I dotn do climbing lol but been in garden all day weeding etc..think I will have lost a few more pounds! Lock Lomond is a fair bit from me ST..i'm in Fife.

ah, you were further away than i realised. i was thinking you were nearer to glasgow?

No jsut over the river from Edinburgh..but its not that far I guess :)

ah, edinburgh my favourite city!!!

Never go there often! Too busy! Not as friendly there either!

added another couple of pics (stop talking about Scotland ; )

i like that little frog ~ no even i know that is not a snake in the corner!!!
nicely cut field you have there stevie ~ build it and they will come ??? all ready for a very big car boot site??
the clem looks really pretty

(sorry stevie, it wont happen again ;-) )

Oooh Soreeeeeeeeeeee! Hush ma mouth!

What have you got in your hand? Is it a frog?

Yes Pixi tis a frog, just been over to water the polytunnel and say another 2 at me feet so lots of small frogs about now

we took a baby frog home on the school bus once, needless to say it escaped!!! great hilarity!!!

oh, well - that's where the extra arm lenght is coming handy. Well done Stevie - we're proud of you. So what are you going to do with the area now? dig a pond for a frogs? lol

Aw you're lucky..Ihad two in the pond but they disapperaed or were eaten or something...i love frogs :)

no frogs here :-(

Arabella will be very happy tied onto the fence. Trying to get a good pic of my Petit Faucon but something is nibbling at it....
That snake looks a bit like mine!
How's Scotland today?

Ok will (Scotland ) put a bit of (Scotland) string there (Scotland)

giggle giggle!!!!!

Hehehe Scotland is wet! Driech Depressing! I have to go out tot weach soon and I dont want to!

All looking really healthy Stevie, love the white clemetis:)

cheers nana ; ) more frogs coming soon

ribbit ribbit ~ bet they love this weather!

frog on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpevZ0-wUYQ&feature=fvwrel