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e instagram well that blogging hiatus was a leeetle longer than i intended after seven years of blogging it seems that i needed a seven month sabbatical i haven t forgotten the fellowship i found in dancing beastie the support kindness and loyalty shown by readers has helped me through some tough times more than you might guess thank you thank you also for kind comments in my absence it s so nice to be missed while i ve been wrestling with how i feel about blogging i ve turned meantime like several other bloggers to instagram you can find me there as dancing beastie of course a photo and a brief caption is easier to fit into the busy days than a blog post in dark and troubled times for the world i began to wonder if a little blog about the pleasures of a quiet country life had any point anyway recently i came to a decision in dark and troubled times a little blog about the pleasures of a quiet country life is exactly what s needed so dancing beastie the blog remains open however erratically may i wish you and yours a very merry christmas and may we all have peace hope and joy in the new year a friendly christmas robin keeps me company in the garden share this share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading 15 comments from uncategorized slow living and super slow broadband may 28 2016 tags blogging bloody technology bluebells walking the dogs westies hello i m still here how have you been all this time it s saturday lunchtime and i m sitting in my local café with my family on my laptop don t you just hate it when people use their electronic devices at table normally this is an unspeakable crime in our family the excuse accepted by my family though with a little teasing is that we have no internet connection at home well we do but it s so minimal as to be worthless 0 2 mbps upload speed zero i can t see videos i can t upload photos and in the time it takes to load a web page i can put the kettle on let the dogs out hang up the laundry make a cup of tea and sit down again we are trying to fix the problem apart from anything else my husband runs our business from home so internet access is crucial meanwhile oh there s so much to share sunny days in the garden bluebell woods at their height crab apple blossom and even a slightly alarming rescue mission for a wild swan for now however our lunch is here and i must rejoin the family i hope to be back with you before much longer happy days in the bluebell woods you might enjoy an escape into the bluebell woods or ahh crab apple blossom time share this share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading 23 comments from uncategorized rough winds do shake may 3 2016 tags castle history gardening gardening with children roses spring the garden walled garden may already although it doesn t feel like it yet a few warm sunny days towards the end of april were balm to the soul and to the garden which put on a growth spurt mostly of nettles last week however swept out the month with snow and hail you can get all seasons in a day at this time of year snowing on the rhododendrons yesterday morning it being the may day bank holiday my husband suggested we plant the rose bushes which i bought recently in a fit of extravagant optimism i think he was looking forward to a morning s pleasant labour together in the spring sunshine it was sunny when we went into the garden certainly but by the time we d fetched the spade and the sack of manure a sudden squall had got up it s not that easy trying to dig a two foot hole while holding onto your hat the emptied plant pots went bowling across the grass along with my husband s cap meanwhile another couple of slates slid off the castle roof onto the garden path sigh at least the rain the first in several weeks was welcome although we wouldn t have minded if it had arrived an hour later it is satisfying to have got the roses planted whatever the weather two generations ago there were rose beds dotted all over the garden before the first world war apparently my husband s great grandfather had two gardeners whose job was just to tend the roses changing labour patterns in the middle of last century took the total number of gardeners from eight to one perhaps inevitably most of the flowerbeds were grassed over to make maintenance easier i ve always had a soft spot for roses however and wished we had more despite their reputation for being high maintenance in planting some new ones actually relatively old varieties like soft pink gertrude jekyll into one of the remaining beds i m hoping firstly to bring some more romantic prettiness to the expanse of lawns and secondly to save myself the job of having to plant out dozens of bedding plants twice a year as was done in the past spring planting with an awful lot of lawn in the background we shall see the great thing about this time of year in the garden is that it s still full of promise this year you tell yourself every year will be the best ever look how tidy and healthy everything looks actually that moment of perfect promise lasts about five minutes this year it was two weeks ago on thursday the tidying up of the winter borders was finished the beds were dug over with rich brown earth the fresh new leaves were just beginning to look as if they meant business then came the two days of warm sun and lo the next time i looked every flower bed and path was bristling with weeds and then last week s snow and frost put paid to several tender seedlings though not the weeds obviously including my son s neat little row of nasturtiums planted out optimistically early we will have to start again with those he couldn t wait to get them in despite the risk of frost such is the joy of gardening it is the triumph of optimism over experience at least the busily growing weeds and all the planting still to be done keep me from idleness and oh look the apple blossom is coming out against the western wall of the garden rough winds do shake the darling buds of may but i ll still hope for apples come september espaliered apple trees against the garden wall you might enjoy the very hungry caterpillar a tragedy in three acts and also what colour is your may share this share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading 14 comments from uncategorized spring forward april 12 2016 tags birds livestock living in a castle spring the garden walled garden during my lengthy silence here the seasons have moved on at last spring is indubitably springing in the fields the new grass is grown enough for the cows to have been put out to pasture a few days ago every morning now we spy another calf born in the quiet of the night the swans are building a nest on the lochan the oyster catchers are digging scrapes in the garden urns to lay their eggs and i have been busy in the garden clearing and digging planning and planting for the first time since we took over castle beastie thirteen years ago for the first time in my life i find myself the head gardener quite a thought if you are as ignorant of gardening as me still that surely means that i will learn by doing the mistakes as well as the i hope successes we are still immersed in the school holidays but my intention is to write here from time to time with reports from the front line of horticultural ignorance it must be the sap rising that has made me want to return to blogging if only occasionally and with the usual haphazard subject matter apart from the garden so with that gloriously british piece of enthusiasm said onwards and may the joys of spring be yours i really don t know anything about gardening as you can see in my hysteria grandiflora is coming along nicely the birds have got the idea though see a des res for oyster catchers share this share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading 21 comments from uncategorized and on it goes february 1 2016 hello how s your winter going so far are you as fed up of the weather as i am rain snow and storms in a scottish winter are not news they are just a scottish winter but torrential rain repeated flooding and storm system after storm system that is news indeed the only fun in watching the otherwise depressing evening news on telly these days is the weather porn feature when we can watch the bbc getting over excited about the latest bit of extreme weather usually led by some poor reporter standing in the dark drenched with rain their hair whipped about their face as they gesticulate at the waves or the swollen river behind them one daft thing which has me shouting at the telly they never wear a hat it s supposed to be el niño behind all this meteorological turmoil isn t it we were warned in the autumn that a bad winter was on the way but i at least hoped that meant days of crisp snowfall not the endless wind and water anyway enough grumbling other countries are faring much worse we have had a few snowy days and very pretty they have been too aberfeldy in the snow from the watermill s café the many wet days have given me a reason to make my first ever batch of seville orange marmalade it looks like sunshine in a jar a very satisfying thing to make in this dreich season sunshine in a jar our first snowdrops are flowering encouraged perhaps by the warm december we had and unperturbed by wind rain or snow our very first snowdrops of 2016 at the moment however the wind is our main news storm gertrude which hit us on friday brought down an alarming number of heavy slates from the castle roof and half of one of my favourite beech trees we have lost several lovely beeches in the past few years trees two or three centuries old which sadly have reached the end of their lives on our watch i hope that the saplings we have planted around the place will have the chance to bring as much pleasure to future generations as these fine old trees have brought to us the pale beech in the centre is the remaining half the rest is on the ground friday s storm has also smashed one of the antique cast iron urns which adorn the grounds and brought down masonry from a chimney stack on the sixteenth century tower of the castle so there will be some repairs to be done once the wind has dropped a job for the local blacksmith not yet though as i write the wind is rising again and we have barred the shutters in preparation for a story night storm henry is forecast to be a bad one with winds reaching their peak in the wee hours of tomorrow morning westerly gales worm their way through every chink in the old walls and chimneys of the castle your feet get cold from the draft as you sit at the kitchen table and our bedroom is baltic as the wind moans and whistles through the sash windows i m off to bring in some firewood now for the evening stay warm a weird lurid sunset no filter just now as the storm sets in my first ever tree post was about beeches not this fallen one but its neighbour the inaugural tuesday tree other stormy adventures are to be found in many of these trees were my friends share this share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading 24 comments from uncategorized blue sky thinking january 14 2016 tags deer fairytales nature snow walking the dogs winter what a relief the snow which i was expecting in early december has finally reached us i know that snow is seen by plenty of people as an inconvenience but honestly after the last month anything other than torrential interminable relentless rain is a pleasure particularly exhilarating was today s crisp cold feathery snow and clear cloudless sky clematis seed heads wearing snowy caps we had almost forgotten what blue sky looked like the rain has truly been phenomenal this winter the river burst its banks here three or was it four times in three weeks the access road to the fishing hut has been scoured away by the floods some fields not ours have been under flood water since the first week of december wild geese and swans seem to have taken up semi permanent residence part of a railway embankment near here was washed away bringing the main north south train route to a halt sheep have drowned floods and landslips have blocked roads homes have been inundated some several times over i can hardly imagine the misery for those poor people and our little bit of the country has not even had the worst of the flooding so you can imagine the silly grins on our faces this morning when in place of the usual murk we woke to a cloudless sky and bright snow at long last a proper winter s day the dogs and i were actually eager to get out for our morning walk even our elderly stone deaf westie volunteered to come for once cosy in his old gentleman s harris tweed jacket the clematis heads remind me a lot of bedraggled westie fur just a smattering of snow had sifted down in the night each snowflake settling featherlight against its neighbours so that you could make out individual crystals in the puffs decorating each twig each rosehip snowflakes on rosehips right up there with whiskers on kittens the white page of the ground was scribbled with hoof and paw prints each line hinting at a nocturnal story here was a busy rabbit crossroads rabbit crossroads and here there seems unmistakably to have been an encounter between a rabbit and a roe deer who each turned aside to sniff the other how i d love to have seen that bambi meets thumper against the garden wall there are always one or two roses which struggle on through the winter in the snow this red bloom is a bittersweet tale in itself perhaps the rose of oscar wilde s nightingale which as a child i could hardly read for weeping i couldn t be melancholy in such weather however through this landscape of marvels we sauntered homewards filled with clean air and frosty sunshine apparently we are getting another few days of the same winter at last the road home you might enjoy winter colours red russet and grey share this share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on 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