Mr Lewis’ Class, South Parade Primary School

What an awful night’s sleep!  We went to bed early because I needed to go to school on Saturday to help move classrooms.  However, we woke up at midnight and heard rattling from behind the curtains.  On investigation it was a bat, who then spent the next three quarters of an hour flying around the bedroom.  I took some pictures first, and then tried to catch it in a towel (it could not find its way back out the window).  Eventually I caught it and then carefully released it back out side.  Of course, by this time I was wide awake and found it hard to go back to sleep!

We had a visitor tonight…a deer.  Unfortunately, I only had the school camera and I had forgot that it was on its lowest setting.  It was nice to see, but I hope it does not visit too often…it might eat the fruit trees!

I thought that I would use some alliteration when naming my digger!  Debbie was born in 1997.  I have bought her to help me clean ditches and the ponds.  She will also help dig the foundations for our extension or new bungalow.  I decided to buy because it is expensive hiring a machine, and if I want to I will be able to sell her when I have finished all the jobs.

Katy the tractor has a new friend … Freddie Forrester.  He is a wood chipper that I have bought for chipping the willow trees.  I have been cutting some new access tracks, so that I can cut firewood in the future, but in the meantime I have been using the chippings on the garden to help prevent the weeds taking over.

Here is a couple of pictures of a robin and her babies.  They were in my garage and I had to avoid moving anything for a few weeks.  I managed to get them to open their beaks by making a chirping noise.