2024 - What I did today

Had to do some emergency blocking up of a hole in the fence into next door's garden. Dear little Spud has been taking himself walk-about again. Problem is that from next door's garden he can go into the fields and from there, onto the road. I've lost count of the times I've tried to block up this bit of fence. Its at a point where the ground drops down into next door and also down into the middle bit of my garden - its an old hedge bank. Spud burrows under the fence and I could see where he'd been through. I've piled logs and rocks over the hole and woven branches from the nearby bay tree through the wire mesh to fill the gaps. Let's see how long it takes him to work his way through this lot!
I was a bit secateur happy at this point so I continued snipping away at elder, brambles, raspberry canes, apple tree, hydrangea, in fact anything that was within easy reach.
Noticed lots of bluebell leaves and daffodils. New shoots on a rose bush too. There may be ice on the water but the plants know that spring is on its way.