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01/10/2006
Another snowy weekend.
Well, Saturday morning saw some snow here, so not much opportunity to do much in the garden.
We put up a new bird-feeder which I'd made form bits of wood during the week. This allows the small birds (finches & tits mostly) to eat the seed I put out each day, rather than the pigeons who ate most of it previously. The pigeons weren't so keen on this change and spent some time chasing the chaffinches away from the food, but they seem to have got used to it now.
Alexande
r and I also painted a bird box I'd made and put that up above his den, in the middle of 
the conifer trees.
We (for a laugh) used up an old can of spray paint and painted the old christmas tree gold and put it in the garden. It looks quite naturalistic, which is not what I'd expected.
Finally, we spent a couple of hours in the rain collecting old leaves - got a total of 12 sacks of squashed up leaves, which were mixed into one of the compost heaps. Still rather a lot of leaves to collect, though!
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