And a fake tree at that!! Well that is where Mr & Mrs Robin have made their nest this year. The not so better other half was tasked with putting…
and I am not overly sorry, January is always rubbish, but the February often joins in with lots of wet and windy weather, and this February has not disappointed, (if…
People sometimes ask how I chose the name for my blog. Well I had no idea what I was doing (still don’t really) and had no idea what to call it,…
I “collected” my damsons from an abandoned orchard, which technically is theft, but, as they were going to rot if not take away, I call it “waste not want not”!…
This is a great way to store plums for the winter. Once cooked and bottles, they need to be stored in the dark so as not to lose their colour,…
If you look at any of my garden or pottager posts there will be a rogue poppy, or two in there. I have no idea where most of them came from,…
My garden is very much a Spring garden, I have just done a once round to take pictures of what is in flower and there are not too many, it…
There is an obvious lack of swallows this year. The first swallow arrived here on the 15th April, but only a few. From carrying out some research, I am not…
When I was in my early teens, on a Sunday, we would, on occasions, have Elderflower Champagne with our Sunday lunch. And did I feel decadent. It didn’t matter that it is…
In the garden, with the rain and sunshine we have been having, the Nepeta bed has gone wild, quite literally, but the bees love it. The long bed (my joke…
Is a small village on the outskirts of York, in the North of England is a village called Dunnington It is known for it’s good weather, and as “the fruit…
No not chicken chicken, but a Fungus called Chicken of the Woods! The reason being that “it tastes like chicken”!! I have the pleasure of having a great old piece of…
We have not had rain in weeks!! This is so unlike wet and windy cottage here in the Lake District…..We only get the lakes from getting the rain. My chicks…
May has been a great month here at Wet and Windy Cottage, we have had little wind and little rain. The lack of rain has been a bit of a…
I know I go on about wet and windy, well, somethings like the wet, obviously not me, but I am not everyone, or in this case everything. I was moving…
Well, what a month April was, there was not much rain but we went from hot sun… to snow and hail. The horses haven’t know if they were coming or…
This is the time of year when bluebells start to show and the yellow of daffodils and gorse start to fade as the cool blue carpets appear. I always think of bluebells…
robin eggs hatch
building a pottager
hellebore
So whilst on my knees searching through the bottom of the hedges for snowdrops, I spotted 2 little daffodils peaking out of a pot, put there to be out of harms way,…
Well. I wasn’t sure what to write for my very first post. The title of my blog is wet and windy, as here in the Lake District it is like…
