Heather on the heath

 September is almost here and the whispers of autumn are starting to appear with wonderful colour that could compete with spring.  This time of year the heath is bursting with purples and pinks from the heather and against the golds of the gorse are a sight not to be missed.

On a one of our nature walks the the girls had fun rambling through shrub land and up trees

 our trail took us along marshland and we enjoyed watching the dragonflies dancing and mating in the air

 I just love the clash of colours and as we walked I was glad we didn't have the pushchair anymore, although Ella spent a lot of time on our shoulders and in our arms.

 We noticed a lot of webs across heather and soon found one occupant and it reminded me that September is coming and soon we will be more aware of a lot of spiders around.

Close encounter of the feather kind

 Sophie has always been really into nature, if there is a frog or toad it will be in her hand, she is often found running around the garden catching butterflies and picking up bugs.

being summer holidays what better way for nature girl to get up close to some wildlife than a bird encounter, and as you can see she lapped up getting the chance to hold some more exotic birds, parrots to a Kookaburra and even got close up to a large owl.

Sophie's high tree adventures

 Sophie turned 6 recently, and has been growing like a weed, she is now finally tall enough to have some fun doing high wire adventures in the trees.  So as part of her Birthday treat she got to go for a climb, and we thought she might be afraid, but it turned out she had to give daddy the pet talk and she ended up going first to show him the way.

 She was so excited to do this experience and was totally trilled the entire way round and enjoyed climbing the wall and zipping the wires.

 She had such a great time she ended up going round 3 times and ditched daddy as he was cramping her new adventure style.

Weybourne beach

Another day another beach, we are so lucky to be surrounded by so many and so varied beaches. from Overstrand we skip passed Cromer and found this gem Weybourne beach wonderful coloured pebbles and lots of interesting things to see, big machines, fishermen beach fishing with really long lines, big vehicles for towing boats and massive chalky cliffs with lines of sedimentary in it with loads of fabulous colours and fun to scrabble over.

Sophie had a ball climbing and sliding on her butt down the other side,

One of the best things about this beach is the beach combing, with loads of different things to collect we went home with buckets loads of treasure.

Spring flourish

 Finally days of blue skies and sunshine, warm weather wakes sleepy bulbs to lift their heads and don hats that make the garden come alive as if a carnival is coming.

 I am very happy with the pots at the front of the house last year we made the layered pots   and im surprised the pansies are still going strong with no sighs of stopping as the tulips crocus and iris barge their way up through soil.

 We saw our first buzzy bumbler today probably very hungry after sleeping all winter

 I love these polyantha victoriana gold lace they are so pretty i will grow more next year from seed

 lovely delicate woodland cyclamen

 Mean while down in the meadow the Phesants seem to also be feeling the effects of the spring weather and are starting to stalk the ladies.

We have been hard at it rolling the mud into paths carving up the mud square into plots