2022 - What's made you happy today

Just being out in the garden over the past three days, in the sun, getting stuff done.

The little birds have suddenly appeared in the past couple of weeks and are fearless, pecking about in the undergrowth while I work. They scuttle about more than they fly, to the extent I keep thinking I have mice, only to see another little bird scurrying behind a plant pot. I will have to be careful not to tidy their hidey holes up too much.

Lots of flying insects about too: the usual bumblebees, honeybees and wasps, but also some interesting kinds of bee that I don't remember seeing before.

Most of my mystery trees and shrubs are coming into leaf, so I'm close to finding out what they are.

I have some beds being formed, and I have planted five fruit bushes in the ground today (one redcurrant, one honeyberry, one green gooseberry, and two red gooseberries that were taken as cuttings from my first gooseberry plant as it died). They represent my first major change to the garden, and there's something very joyful about that.