08/04/2016, Home,I am home!

Oh,how I love it,the garden with the little birds twittering.There is a tiny thing with red belly, that follows me when I work. I throw it all the worms I dig out.And the little mite knows I wouldn't hurt it, it has become used to my presence and does not feel threatened. But there are predators lurking at every corner,the most predatory of them all a cat.I don't like cats.There is nothing anyone can say that would make me feel any different.I have been told the horses sense if a woman is menstruating and the cats feel if a person does not like them.I don't know how true it is Re the horses,I know it is not true Re the cats.I don't like cats,but cats like me.Tried and tested.One of my neighbours had a spoilt over-fed moggie.Luckily she discovered me and my garden only about a year before the house was sold and they left,[they moved into the country just over two years ago].The cat would follow me whenever I was outside,she would climb the garden wall at the back,then sit by the french windows and call out to me until I talked to her.And talk I did,I would tell her to go and not come back.Did she go? No.I was like Maleficent shooing the little beastie away but the little beastie just would not go.So a kind of truce was declared and I had to grit my teeth and bare it.And that is how I know there is not a word of truth in saying the cats feel if you do not like them. The first thing I do when I come home in the colder months from October to April is feed the birds.I have boiled some eggs for them,mixed worms with milk,mashed a ball of suet. Unfortunately, there are some big bleeders in the garden, and they get to it first!They look like crows to me, experts may disagree.But all creatures must eat to live,and I wait for them to get their fill and then go and check what, if anything is left and I refill the feeding bowls.I always wait impatiently for the squirrels to pop round,there was a family of 2 adults and 2 babies,after the birth they had disappeared for a while, but two or so weeks ago they came back,all 4 of them, running up and down the massive trees at the back of the garden.I love to see them there,I think they found a safer home when the mother was pregnant and the babies tiny, in fear of the cats. But now the babies can kind of take care of themselves and run fast from any danger, they may make the trees their home again. Peanuts are waiting. Hurricane Katie had done quite a job in the garden,it is covered with twigs from the trees.And the weeds are popping out.As soon as I get my paperwork sorted [haven't counted the letters yet,but there are more than enough of them to keep me busy for a week!] will start digging. It is so cold outside.The central heating is on,the boiler burbling merrily. How I love it here.