... but first, there's peas followed by lizards

⏩ Lizard alert a bit further down this post,

but first, there's peas.... beautiful homegrown peas, straight from My Darling's first harvest:

I couldn't resist playing around with them

 before they went into a stir-fry, yummo 😋

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Following on from my previous post, Jenny Wolf asked if the blue tongue lizard's tongue is really blue, so I dug out some photos I took last year:

These were taken through our kitchen window and aren't as sharp as might be, but, there's that incredible blue tongue!

Wishing everyone lots of good times, and 

Cheerio for now :D)

Back on deck....

Hello there,

Where to start?  I'm rusty !!

Been away a long time and the only way I can sum up the reasons for my absence is to quote Miranda Hart when she says "Life, eh?"  

The old brain cogs took a little while to work out how to drive this blog posting again - it does help if passwords are kept to hand, for one thing ;D)

Anyway, here we are and I hope that all is well with you out there. So, off I go ....

We're enjoying the approach of Summer... lots of sunny days but not the heat.  The grass has all just been mowed so the Blackbirds are out pecking around finding little treats for their babies:

Our resident Blue Tongue Lizard is also out and about taking in the sun - but not as actively as the Blackbirds:

She/he has become so tame that as long as we walk slowly past her she'll stay put.  I was an arm's length away for this photo today.

Painting is still one of my favourite hobbies and I'll include a few of my efforts.  I enjoy painting cards for the family - in fact, I thoroughly enjoy it. It's nice to add that personal touch.

and finally, the painting I'd started  (see this post) before I abandoned my poor blog:

Cheerio for now and thanks for your visit :D)