Saturday 4 June 2016

Five on Friday

Hello, thank you so much for dropping in, for your time, your patience and your kind comments.  The sun has been shining on me all week, in Somerset and in Shropshire, and I have been enjoying the great outdoors so today I thought I would join Five On Friday and show you five pictures taken outdoors this week.
 
 
This was the view from our tent, looking across the Somerset Levels to Glastonbury Tor.  I took this one on a warm evening as the rays of the setting sun were turning the clouds pink.  I couldn't think of anywhere I would rather be at that moment.


Next to our tent was a paddock full of sunny buttercups and three resident alpacas.  I am immensely fond of alpacas and I enjoyed their company very much, even at 11pm when they noisily chased each other round the field at high speed, squealing with excitement. 


 
More cloudwatching.  We awoke on Wednesday to leaden skies but the sun really did try to break through
 
 
I have been a fan of the Wessex writer Thomas Hardy since I studied his work at school and 2nd June was his birthday so on Thursday I sat in the garden for an hour and read some of his nature-themed poetry.  Around me, the birds were singing and butterflies were fluttering by.  It felt just right.
 

 
As we sat in the summerhouse yesterday enjoying a cup of tea, a pesky and persistent wasp kept flying in and we kept shooing her out.  When the Best Beloved moved my chair outside, her small, rather beautiful nest dropped onto the patio.  No wonder she was so persistent.  Well, fascinating and beautiful as it is, it really couldn't stay - you know what happens when you build without planning permission!
 
A spell with Mother Nature always restores my equilibrium.  This year I am participating in The Wildlife Trusts' 30 Days Wild, trying to engage with nature and do something wild every day during the month of June.  It's going to be challenging but I am determined to make the time.
 
Thank you to Amy at Love Made My Home for organising Five On Friday, if you have time, please hop over there and see what everyone else has been up to this week.
 
See you soon.
 
Love, Mrs Tiggywinkle x

14 comments:

  1. Great view from your tent, Glastonbury For is one of my favorite place.

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  2. I love the sound of your week and all that cloud watching. I can't think of anything better than a few of Thomas Hardy poems in the countryside. I look forward to your posts this month as yo go wild. Have fun. B xx

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  3. I'm so glad you had some good weather for your wild adventures. Enjoy the fresh air. x

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  4. Five lovely things. I hope you enjoy 30 days wild and I look forward to reading more of your wild aventures:)

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  5. What a lovely week and weather you had. Brilliant you read Hardy on his birthday too

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  6. Really enjoyed reading about your 5, it sounds like a lovely week, resting, reading and enjoying the great outdoors.

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  7. It sounds like a lovely week, Mrs T. Enjoy going wild! xx

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  8. Sounds like a great week, you have certainly had better weather than we have. Lovely to be out and about outside again.

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  9. The field of buttercups could have been my front yard - with out the alpaca, of course! I'm working on those buttercups, but they are persistent.
    Good luck with the thirty days wild!

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  10. A lovely five things here. I adore Glastonbury and I'm not sure which I prefer -staying in the town or staying nearby to appreciate the view!
    As for your wasp nest; many years ago I lived in a place with a part-covered walkway to some outbuildings. I watched a wasp build a nest from the eaves and was fascinated by the work that went into it. I wasn't worried though - I knew a couple of weeks later our resident swallows would be back and would make short work of anything living there!

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  11. A lovely post! The view of Glastobury is wonderful. Wasps nests are not my favourite thing, but they are so interesting to look at aren't they. So sorry to be so late visiting! I have been away over the weekend and am just catching up with posts. Thank you for your support of Five On Friday. I hope you are having a good week! xx

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  12. What a great outdoorsie week, so relaxing. That wasp nest is quite a work of art really, a pity they are such a pest.

    Diana

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  13. I love your photo of the alpaca in the buttercups...so sweet. I had to smile at the thought of that race around the field. I've always wanted to keep alpacas - I don't suppose you managed to take one home? Hope that your days are now less hectic and you have time to relax. Marie x

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  14. It's a joy to get out into the countryside. It sounds like you had a good week in Somerset and at home, cloud watching, enjoying life in the wild, reading favourite poetry etc. Have a good week and enjoy the 30 Days Wild project.

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