We have enjoyed a beautiful -if ludicrously mild- autumn. I’m kind of running out of superlatives to describe the rapid changes to our climate on the blog, but yeah, “there was little need for a sweater the entirety of October and my entire balcony garden […]
Tag: Birds
On the Cusp
Hello all and happy Autumn Equinox folks! After a warm start of September, which couldn’t be distinguished from the hot summer months before, we now truly seem to have entered the transition into the darker and colder months of the year. After weeks of no […]
The Last Bits of Autumn
Congrats everyone, we survived whatever the end of November has become! As someone who doesn’t even live in a country that celebrates thanksgiving it’s truly bewildering to see how in just a few years out of the blue it has become an overwhelming capitalist hellscape […]
Berry Season
Hi all, and welcome September! On the morning of the first day of the month, I was greeted by a red squirrel foraging for seeds and hopping from tree to tree in a dark foliage covered woodland path. In that snapshot it felt as if […]
A Snow Storm in February
Greetings from a snow covered Treehouse! Deep winter decided to pay us a visit on Sunday and I woke up to 20cm of snow overnight with more falling in the days after. I think the gnomes snuck into Vrouw Holle‘s cottage and shook up the […]
2020: Sewing, Balcony Garden and Outside Explorations
December greetings friends! I hope those of you who celebrate Christmas had a warm, meaningful, merry and safe holiday celebration and for the rest of you I hope you’ve had a few restful loving days. Ordinarily I would have taken the train and travelled south […]
Autumn on the Balcony, New Projects and Mending
Hey all. How is everyone holding up? In my patch of the world we are on our way back into a second Covid-19 lockdown, as restrictions have toughened significantly after numbers have sky rocketed. I’ll spare you the details of the incompetence of our government […]
Waking up With Bird Songs
Hey all. Summer has arrived in the year that is already a decade long. It’s the season of waking up with bird song through open windows. I thought I would come here and write a bit about what’s going on my end of the screen […]