I have not been doing much blog posting lately and that is because although some things have happened I did not know if they was really very interesting or just the same as always and then I did sort of get out of the habit but I will try to get back into the habit now because my friend Nick says otherwise everyone will forget who I am. So what has been going on then?...because now I must try and remember all the different things...
Hmm...first there was a bit of a problem with my carrots where there was some holes coming in the leaves and so because my friend Helen thought it was some sort of caterpillers she sprayed them with some oily stuff and unfortunately that was a mistake because they started to shrivel up and look awful. Some of them got better and they are ok but some did not and so my friend Helen planted some replacements and they are all coming up now so it should all be alright I think. Oh and the holes was baby slugs and so she has also put some pellet things in to get rid of them and Mister Carrot has done lots more sprinkling of his magic over them to help.
My friend Helen has been out and done lots of her classes where she learns about jewellrey and stuff and she has been getting on very well indeed but now they have finished so she is looking for some more and also buying some tools which are called files and pliers and things. She was mostly excited because she got to melt down some silver and pour it into a mould that she made and she is now looking for more things to melt so I am keeping all my things well hid!
The next thing that I have got to report is that my friend Helen's Mothra eggys came and they was all in a tube and very tiny
but it did not take long before they was hatching out and the caterpillers have all got little aerials at the back which is very funny and it makes them look like they can pick up the radio :ŹD
My friend Helen thought she was getting just one though and now she has got ten which she is wondering what to do when they are all grown up because they are called 'Death's Head' and they are very big apparently so we might need a lot more boxes but she is having a lot of fun watching them and looking after them. She has been out and picked them some plants to eat and they are from next door's front garden but they seem to like it so we might need to get some from somewhere else or they will have to eat the lot when they are bigger and next door will not be very pleased.
In the garden there was just one of the figs on our tree that was ripe and then it suddenly got a hole in it
and we was wondering what was going on but it did not take very long to solve the mystery because the next time we looked there was a birdy burglar on the tree!
My friend Nick says it is called a thrush and he did not mind it was stuffing its face with our one fig as long as it does not pinch them all when they go ripe.
Also while I am talking about our trees I should say that the peach tree which we did only get one on the last time and then the squirrels mucked it up is very happy this year and although it is very skinny still it has got fifty two peaches on it and they are very heavy and so we have propped up the branches with a broom thing that is tied onto a stick.
It is only the middle of the year but the blackberries is all going ripe in the graveyard too and so the other day my friend Nick and my friend Helen went and picked some for making pies with which is great for them but it does make it feel a bit like it is autumn already which is a shame as we have not had much sun yet and that is why I have called this post "Is it summer yet" because we was watching the weather on the telly the other day and the man had a picture of England where we live and he waved at three places up at the top and in the middle and down at the bottom and then he said "we could have rain here, or here, or possibly here". I could have done that weather report! In case the weatherman is reading this and would like to know IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE SUNNY IN THE SUMMER!
Anyway I think it does sound a bit like moaning now so I will stop and the next time I will do a poem for definite.
