A Beautiful Fox just came right up to our Kitchen Door! Not the usual mangey types one gets in Central London!

The tree is now bare.

The Cherry Tree in our Front Garden has lost nearly all it's leaves.

Autumn leaves of our Cherry Tree.

Cherry Blossom Snow.

Our lovely cherry blossom tree has slowly shed its petals.

Floating pink blossom gently fluttering down like snow on a warm spring breeze.

Our Cherry Blossom Tree!

Blooming Blossom.

The View from our Front Garden.
The Cherry Blossom is starting to come out.

Resurrection!

Last autumn we attempted to improve the soil condition of our garden by sifting out all the stones and digging in some decent compost. The stones and dead bulbs were dumped in an empty compost bag and left to itself for the winter.

This week on surveying the garden the flower beds are as lifeless as they always tended to be. But the discarded bag of rubble has a host of golden daffodils! Truly, truly, the bulbs that the gardener rejected have become the finest display in the garden!

In the spirit of the compost bag I have decided, against my better judgment, to revive my old blog; so after one year, two months and eight days, or if you prefer 436 days or even 37,670,400 seconds, this will be the first of a whole new series of Swiftypete. Not that I am entirely reconciled to the whole self-promotion thing. But who knows what might come of this.... who knows?

Killing Spree! Crazed Londoner
in night-time garden massacre!

It was like this you see, I'd been taking these pills for
my backpain - I've been on them weeks now. And I'm
taking sleeping pills on top of them like. Sometimes
they help me sleep for a few hours and sometimes I
get these "dreams".

Anyway one night I'd had all these pills and had had
a nightmare, besides I couldn't sleep cos I was in pain,
so I hobbles downstairs to make myself a cup of tea. It's
2 or 3 O'Clock in the morning. I has my tea....and
then I'm not sure if I'm awake or dreaming....maybe
it was the pills that was making me confused like!
Or MAYBE they're really helping me see things
straight for the first time! Because everthing becomes
clear to me.

You see I realise that they are out there....in the garden
....but they don't know I'm awake....they think I'm tucked
up in bed don't they? These neighbours of mine have
never liked me....I could never prove anything but I
was sure they were plotting against me.....they mess up
my garden at night [every night!] when I'm not around....
they don't have the guts to do it in daylight! Stinking cowards!
And then it comes to me like a "revelation!" This is it! I can
catch the blighters red handed......cos they won't be expecting
me will they?!

Quick as a flash I grabs a torch and a weapon and I
charges out into the garden in the dead of night - and
the bastards are there! Scores of 'em! BANG! Slug there.
BANG! Slug there. I go mental like and I can't stop and
when I've finished they're all these bodies lying there all
around me.

The snails didn't fair much better either.