The steep bank in front of the house

Our house is built on a hill. If you imagine a wedge cut out of the hill and flipped over downwards to make a flat bit, that's where the house is. This means that the bank of land in front of the house is quite steep. The pic to the left is what it looked like a couple of Mays ago. At the moment that same side bit looks like this, below:

north-west bank

And the front bank, facing north-east, looks like this >>
The daffodils and primroses are just beginning to flower. The white markers, made out of pieces of plastic yogurt pot, are to show where primulas that weren't yellow turned up last year.


I meant to collect some seed from them but left it too late. It was a very wet summer, which didn't help. Maybe this year...

some of the front bank in April 2014

The other end of the front bank in April 2014. I was scything rushes and long grass at the bottom when I took this photo.

Peening my scythe blade later in the year

At the start of August 2014 we had had a spell of dry weather and I had scythed the south-east end of the front bank and then mown it with the Flymo hover mower. I'd also discovered, while sitting on an old camping mat to dig out some dock with a trowel, that the mat made an excellent slide, so when DerbyshireDaughter and family came for a visit Moo and Toadlet had a great time sliding.

'Piglet' also had a slide but he then led me down to the beach where he picked up and dropped into the loch a large (for him) stone several dozen times and watched the splash with fascination.