Last week I shared my pictures of the fox on the hedge in the sunshine. I haven’t seen him or her on the hedge again since, but there has been some fox activity. I took this snap of a fox in the garden during the day this week. Then one night I woke up about 3 in the morning and saw foxes playing on my drive. It isn’t really that surprising to see them as I think they make their home in next door’s back garden. What tends to happen is that I don’t see a fox for ages and then I will see one around quite a few times in a short space of time, then back to not seeing them again.
It’s lovely to still have some flowering plants in the garden at this time of year. Most of the flowers are summer ones that are holding on, but these cyclamen are new for the season. They inspired me to plant some allium bulbs in my flower border for late spring/early summer. Alliums are a favourite, and if I’m to have them next year, I need to plant them now. I’m hoping these to rather better than the last lot. I planted some previously which gave an ok sort of display one year and didn’t really perform much at all after that. Fingers crossed!
This little fellow was in our garden before we bought the house and he’s got rather faded over the years. He’s on an old tree trunk that forms part of our hedge. In the summer he disappears under the foliage, but reappears when the hedge is cut back. Some years ago I won a Caribbean cruise and on one of the islands we spotted lots of market stalls selling very similar lizards (but much more brightly coloured than he is now) – I wish now that I’d bought a friend for him whilst we were there.
H went back to school this week. He’d been off for two weeks because some of his year tested postive for the virus. Initially he was supposed to go back on Tuesday, but then someone else tested positive who had been in school at a later date, so he went back on Friday instead. He’s only got a week now to go before a two week half term. This time rather than just setting work, H had mostly live lessons delivered online. It meant that he was kept working for longer than when he was off earlier in the year, but he still gets the benefit of not having to travel to school. Some lessons aren’t done online like PE (difficult to run a games lesson online I’d think) and latin (not sure why for that). H only started the latin a few weeks ago, but he’s already picking it up and he is much happier doing it than he was studying French. Plus latin has the advantage of including some classical studies and H has always been interested in that sort of thing.
We sometimes have foxes in our back garden but I am never quick enough to catch them on camera.
The flowers look so pretty. We still have some from the summer hanging on and a few new one’s too. x
I have a few flowers left in the garden and it is nice to see some colour.
That lizard looks pretty cool.
Must be so weird for H having everything keep changing. Latin seems to be getting quite popular again in schools. We’ve seen 2 mentions of it at secondary school virtual open evenings.
I loved Latin at school, was gutted when we moved to Oxfordshire and they didn’t do it in school. Not seen foxes here but used to get them a lot where my parents used to live #366
Did you name the lizard? I always all lizards Chester since I was little!
Love to see the fox in the back garden, what does the cat make of it? Doubt they’d venture into mine with the dog as well. Shame H had to stay away from school for 2 weeks and only back briefly before half term begins
Learning Latin is a fab opportunity, I think, it helps understand so many European languages. The school we’re considering to apply for E for the next year doesn’t offer Latin lessons.
Wonderful to watch the foxes from your windows.
We’ve got a confirmed Covid case in school, in the younger class, which has been closed, but the remaining classes continue going to school.
My cyclamens are also in bloom now, they seem to bloom twice a year, in spring and autumn.
It’s lovely to see some flowers in the garden still and to see the foxes. I love the little lizard – we have a few things like that around the garden. Glad that H is back at school and enjoying Latin – I remember doing that at school for a couple of years and loved it, mostly because of the classical studies that went with it too. #project366
Poor H hope he gets to go back soon. I love the idea of classical studies. I think it sounds good as an adult. The garden looks great xx
We have a fox that lives in the back of our garden which is still very wild and overgrown. I put out the left over bits of cat food that my fussy cats won’t eat (they insist it’s fresh from the pouch and won’t touch it if it has dried up). I don’t like putting meat products in the bins as our rubbish is only collected fortnightly, so the fox is doing me a favour by eating the cats’ leftovers.
Wow Latin is super impressive, it sounds like a great subject to study. I am surprised we don’t see more foxes because of where we live. I would have loved to win a Caribean Cruise how amazing. I keep meaning to pick up come cylamen for our garden x
Glad to hear H has got back to school, Isaac’s has closed for us now so I have him home for a minimum of two weeks. Love your little lizard, he is rather cute, if a little faded
The cyclamen look lovely, I wouldn’t have had a clue they were called that though unless you had said though, I am hopeless at gardening. It’s so nice you get to see foxes playing in your garden.
Awwww love the fact H is learning Latin, how is he getting on with it? What a nightmare with being off school for so long but good that he has been able to crack on with live lessons!
What a fab gecko on the tree, just an excuse to return to the Caribbean to stock up on another. How fab you won a cruise though!
Hello again, Fox. OoOo they’ve made a home near you? Pretty flowers. That’s a fancy lizard, would’ve been nice for it to have a friend. I hope H’s lessons are going well