A Doll a Day in April: Day 30 - Henry

For most Dear Henry needs no introduction.  He of course has his own blog 'Holidays with Henry' 

He hasn't been on many holidays lately - actually he hasn't been on any since his last in 2019!

But he is still a very special boy.

 

Henry's Garden Tour

Come on a tour of our garden

Off we go

There are lots of trees in our garden for me to climb and sit in.  This one is a Mulberry Tree.

It has tiny fruit starting to form on it.

We have four raised vegetable beds.  This one has a lot of salad leaves in it, as well as chard, peas and tomatoes.  We have salad every day for lunch and chard and spinach for dinner.

This bed has our beans growing in it.

They are starting to flower which is exciting.

It also has some Kale and Onions.

Over here we have a courgette plant flowering and several little courgettes growing.

Oh dear what has happened here?

Something, as yet unidentified has been eating our other Kale and Brassica plants.  Grrr..

Yummy raspberries.  We have been picking a few of these each day.

Gooseberries.  Mum has already made two batches of jam with these, looks like we need to pick some more!

Into the orchard, we have a lot of apple and other fruit trees.

All great for climbing as well!

A pear tree.

This side we have potatoes, peas and onions.

The peas are growing nicely.

We have a little vineyard...trouble is they are wine grapes and Mum doesn't drink wine and we are not really sure what we should be doing with them, so they are currently growing wild!

A lovely big fig tree.

Down the steps...

We discovered these and uncovered them a month or so after moving in.

A plum tree

Looking forward to these.

Strawberries - that need a better cover over them as they keep getting eaten by critters.  It is a constant battle here against badgers and other wildlife.

Our lovely pond, so peaceful and relaxing.

With its beautiful water lilies.

Although the fish seem to have also gone missing - we have seen a heron around here, so we may need to cover it eventually if we have to get more fish.

Of course there is the sea view which is a delight.  We can also 'spot ships' that sail past daily.

I hope you enjoyed my little tour.

We are thinking of re-instating our original Sasha/Gregor blog, with perhaps a name change to reflect we now live on an Island and also to give Mum some focus!  Ha ha, hopefully you might get to see more of us Gregor and Sasha friends that way.

A Lovely Gift.

Look Peggy Sue a card and present for us and rest of the gang.  Henry said.

Ooh, I wonder who it can be from?  Peggy Sue asks.

Henry opens the card.  

It is a welcome to our new home card.  He tells Peggy Sue.  It is from the Gregoropolis Kids.  How wonderful!

You can open the present Peggy Sue.  Henry says as he hands it to her to open.

Thank you Henry.

Oh look a really lovely bird book.  Peggy Sue says as she shows Henry.

What a super book.  Henry replies as he has a flip through the pages.  Full of wise sayings and poetry.

I bet Francis will also like this, as he is into poetry and stuff...

Thank you all at Gregoropolis for thinking of us.

Henry waves, and Peggy Sue blows a kiss...then has a bit of a thought, hence her slightly anxious expression, that she might have embarrassed the boys there!  Never mind Peggy Sue, boys are meant to be embarrassed every now and again.

Rory looks for Tadpoles.

Rory is heading to the pond to see if he can spot any tadpoles

He is really looking forward to having some frogs this year.

He was surprised to fin Henry already at the pond.

He joins Henry as they look for tadpoles

They see a few...

Much better over this side though.  Rory tells Henry.

Lots of tadpoles.

Rory sees if he can count them, but admits there are too many.

We only topped up the pond a few days ago, it almost looks like it needs yet more water, it has been so warm the last couple of weeks.

The boys enjoy sitting beside the pond chatting away about this and that.

They are fortunate they have each other's company.