We finally got our allotment after what must have been a 2 years queue. This is how the allotment area looks like (not how our plot of land looks like though at least not yet). We would certainly like our plot to look somewhat like that, but it will almost certainly requre a [...]

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Finally recorded down the tame Robin on video. Quality is a bit poor, I know, as I only have a mobile phone that can record video Initially the Robin didn’t want to feed from my hand, which you’ll probably notice, my chasing hand It was too busy looking at the tub [...]

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After more than a month of patience, the Robin is finally tamed! It feeds off W’s hand, and my friend’s hand too, but not mine! How annoying! W rightly predicted that it will feed off her hand today, as it is very cold today, and naturally the Robin will want more food. BTW we are [...]

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Got two bags of coffee grounds for free from Starbucks to be used as organic fertiliser for my garden. But apparently they are also good for keeping slugs and snails away from plants, according to that branch of Starbucks. Brilliant, if that is true, as the bloody slugs in my garden have devoured quite a [...]

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These are photos taken two days ago when the lighting conditions were better. Roger had been very cooperative, posing for me to do the photoshoot for more than a quarter of an hour This was of course because I had not given him all the food he was hoping for in one go. [...]

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