Now that I\u2019m back to pretending it might be almost spring our Mistress and I have gone out in the back garden to discuss what flowers I might like this year. Obviously anything which would be poisonous to us is out, as is anything that she is allergic too. Thankfully, that still left a lovely long list of possibilities. We then started to rule out the ones that Shadow would eat (primroses) the ones I would eat (sunflowers) the ones which would increase the risk of Wilma being stung by bees (most of them) the ones with potentially illegal uses\u2026 and so the list began to reduce. On the good news side it looks as though there is room for marigolds as long as Wilma doesn\u2019t chase the bees, and some antirrhinum which our Mistress sais remind her of childhood. To be fair, she wants to do all she can to encourage the bees so it looks as though she\u2019s going to need to focus on Wilma\u2019s training. She might move the hedgehog house to the back garden too, but then we\u2019ve all got to promise to leave it alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then we got onto a discussion of the use of fertilizers and compost from the garden. It wasn\u2019t the discussion you might expect. It was mainly along the lines of \u2018Alfie, please don\u2019t try to eat it all this year.\u2019 I had to concede she might just have a point. We settled on if she could make sure the compost from the green bins wasn\u2019t at surface level then I\u2019d promise not to dig for it. I couldn\u2019t answer for the others. Because I don\u2019t like going for walks these days she says I\u2019m the most important to consider when it comes to the garden as she\u2019s hoping to spend more time working out there this year with me being able to enjoy the fresh air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just a few sunflower seeds to munch on would be nice! I\u2019ll give it another go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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