My orchids did really well last year and some of them are still in flower even now. I’ve particularly loved the delicate colours of this one .. ☺️ 🌼.

I love this card my husband got for his birthday 🤦‍♀️😄 ..

🦇Rachel Reeves might not give a 💩about 🦇but I do🙂Please be careful when clearing up fallen trees as🦇will be using them to hibernate Before placing the branch back I placed a stick in between it to make sure the 🦇weren’t squashed ❤️🦇❤️🦎

Kestrel sunning himself on top of the apple tree this morning ☺️ ☀️.

On a fad of watching solo climbing films at the moment and I thought this one was brilliant - and beautiful. Have you seen this ⁦Col⁩ ?

Researching ancestry & on my late granddad’s birth certificate it says his dad was a ‘bricklayer journeyman’. I’d never heard the word ‘journeyman’ before and thought it meant he was a traveller. Apparently it means a trained worker who is employed by someone else. Interesting.

Spent a very nice afternoon down Cromford Meadows and then wandering around the Mills there this afternoon - taking advantage of this lovely spring sunshine we’re having ☺️🌞.

Pretty little song thrush hopping around the garden this morning ☺️.

Lovely to see the bullfinches in the garden again ☺️

My favourite ever ‘April Fool’ - Vivienne Westwood dressed as Margaret Thatcher made a memorable cover for society magazine Tatler in 1989 and had readers doing a double take when it appeared in newsagents #AprilFoolsDay #VivienneWestwood

Cat Train in Japan 🚆

A lovely carpet of blossom in Rowsley today ☺️

Look what #merlinbirdapp ⁦Merlin Bird ID⁩ detected in our garden this morning .. never heard of one before 😯 🐦

OMG Just had a woodpecker at the bird bath! 😯☺️

Cheese Gromit? 😬😋

Watching hubby enjoy an open air swim (that’s High Tor in the background) 🏊 😊

Autumn has definitely arrived at National Trust Kedleston Hall ☺️

#Chatsworth resplendent in the autumn sunshine yesterday 🍂

Winter sunrise this morning behind the church next door 🌅☺️

No, it’s not a photo of two halves, in the foreground is a snow covered frozen lake. In all my years of coming to National Trust #kedlestonhall I’ve never seen the lakes iced over like this 🥶