More signs of spring

 Blackthorn blossom on the bridle way and field edges

Lambs in the fields - quite well grown ones

Gardens in their spring time yellow

More magnolia

and more sightings of brimstone butterflies and orange tips, ‘lus one peacock seen in the garden this morning

Springtime

 Flowers and butterflies in Weekley Hall Wood. (31st March).

No photos of the flutters but we saw a comma, several brimstones and some whites , probably small whites.

Flowers were easier to catch on camera!

primroses…

wood anemones..-

a fine magnolia

and coltsfoot.

Lots of celandine too.

Partial solar eclipse

 Projected through binoculars at 10.38

and 10.51

 

and through holes in a lemon squeezer soon after 11 am

Puppet’s progress

 Onward to Saint Patrick’s Day

Patching up a favourite sweater

 An alpaca sweater which Harry bought for me in Holt, Norfolk, in 2016, not long after our visit to Chile.

It’s comfortable, comforting, warm and very lightweight.  Not a garment to be discarded!

Photo of the sleeve…

Visible mending rocks! 

Yet more ‘visible mending’

I’m very fond of these soft alpaca wool socks, which I wear as slippers. So when they began to wear out … I guess I should have posted the before photo!

more darned socks …

 

Getting through them -

The process

blanket stitching on a darning mushroom….

and another darn (ed) sock

 

Mending and making do!

 A sleeve, with basic darning.

and a sock with honeycombed blanket stitch plus weaving! Not sure how comfortable this will be with shoes…