Daffodils at The Woodhouse
- Springtime at The Woodhouse
Welcome to the very first Woodhouse blog! This is where I hope to let you know the news as it happens and tell you of interesting snippets from the area, special events or any item that may be interesting. A good place to start might be to wonder whether any of you saw the news item on Ledbury about a week ago which reported that the landlord of a black and white pub in our famous Church Lane, woke up to find that a couple of men, dressed neatly in workmens’ overalls, had arrived early and painted the pub a rather feminine shade of pink. The news was broadcast by our town cryer and the landlord gave a T.V. interview where the Pink Panther was mentioned…
The countryside is looking very Spring-like and the garden has been a sea of daffodils; both sides of the drive are lined with them and there are huge clumps of them around the moat and elsewhere, from the delicate wild Tenby daffodil and dainty little narcissi to big yellow and orange trumpeted varieties. The birds are making their nests though we have yet to hear the cuckoo; it usually arrives about the third week of April. However, from our converted hop kiln, we are at the same level as the bird feeders hanging from the willow tree and we are greatly entertained by the flocks of long-tailed tits, a couple of jays and the woodpeckers which feast off the nuts. The grey squirrels make determined efforts to get at them as well.
