{"id":26331,"date":"2022-05-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=26331"},"modified":"2022-05-08T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T05:00:00","slug":"where-are-the-ducks-sunday-8th-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2022\/05\/08\/where-are-the-ducks-sunday-8th-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the ducks? – Sunday 8th May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Where are the ducks?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ok, so where are the ducks? We gave them a house. We bought them some food \u2013 although it turns out Mum keeps forgetting to put any out for them. Are they grateful? It seems not. They\u2019ve done a runner \u2013 swim or fly. Mum is now wondering if it was a mistake to put an alligator next to the pond. Maybe the ducks are more educated than we\u2019d realised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case that is the problem I\u2019ve helped Mum to move the alligator. Disconcertingly he\u2019s now sitting in Mum and Dad\u2019s little bistro area (the pergola), in the place where Mum plans to build a bar b q. Now we need to see if the ducks come back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exciting development<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ari is particularly excited about his spaghetti squash seed that has germinated. The fact there are lots of tiny thyme, lavender, borage, sorrel, dill, parsley and oregano seedlings he is not finding nearly as exciting as the one rather large squash seedling. He says if it is starting at that size he is expecting it to take over the whole greenhouse before long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He\u2019s asked Mum where he\u2019s supposed to plant it, but the problem is the vegetable bed isn\u2019t ready. We thought it was until we found how bad the soil was. We\u2019re all working very hard to dig it and take out the stones, but there is a long way to go. Maybe he can plant it in the corner we\u2019ve already dug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleeping well<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At least with all the time outdoors we\u2019re all sleeping well. Shadow can start falling asleep still standing up, she\u2019s so tired. She does hate to miss out. I at least have the sense to go indoors when I get too hot, Shadow rather oddly chose to go and sit in the greenhouse. Mum had to persuade her to move to somewhere more sensible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where are the ducks? Worryingly Wilma hasn’t seen them since the alligator moved in – is that a coincidence?<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,150],"tags":[12,58],"class_list":["post-26331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening-2","category-wildlife","tag-gardening","tag-wildlife","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}