Lockdown in our small garden patch...

 It is the first year our cherry tree has blossomed brightening up our garden. 

The good weather 🌞continues to hold on. Of course this has made a huge difference to our garden, as you can see our cherry tree has blossomed beautifully this year. It feels so good to sit under it while having a nice hot drink while enjoying the warm sunshine. We definitely need the sun to warm up our bodies, as it's known as sunshine vitamin (vitamin D when skin is exposed to sunlight, it makes vitamin D from cholesterol.) which is good for all of us after a long harsh winter stuck indoors.
Lockdown has given us the opportunity to do some gardening over the last few weeks, like watering our plants every other day and searching for small garden creatures.

Tim Benjamin definitely enjoys hunting for them, specially the slimy ones hidden in dark places around the garden, like snails and worms. He's busy while I keep myself busy running around searching for containers and tools to create temporary homes for them. This sort of nature activity keeps Tim busy, at least in the moment, as he is naturally curious and enjoys doing things independently with his own hands.

We noticed as the good weather continued to hold on, some of our plants were beginning to be eaten by slugs, so what we did we brought our own eco friendly snail traps, child/pet friendly. Our own small plastic containers filled with cheep beer did the job.

Tim's small garden friend. 

Another good passtime activity before bedtime, our roof of our shed turned into the perfect observation spot. The evenings were clear and warm which made it perfect for the kids to sit comfortably up there and observe the vast sky full of stars in the distance. 

In fact a few nights ago we were all puzzled when we all spotted a string of mysterious distant lights fleeting across, one after the other . It was fascinating to see this sort of unusual activity moving silently above in the distance. Off course Tim's wild imagination created made up stories about space creatures travelling above us. I kind of got spooked when I thought about UFO's. "Could it be?" I thought to myself. This activity above continued the following evening while I was busy in the kitchen. It was the (21st of April) the kids ran out into the garden and climbed on top of our shed around 9 pm to see if they could spot what they saw a few nights back. This time they knew exactly what it was. My 15 year old daughter found out on the internet, those fast moving lights were not UFO's, in fact they were satellites, part of the Space-X Star link project which provides accessible internet to everyone. Tim's curious eye captured a few of them fleeting across once again. This time he knew what they were. His made up stories were no longer the talk of the evening. Feel free to comment if you happen to have spotted those mysterious fleeting lights above...

WRITTEN BY IRENE KATHERINE/KATHERINE'S LASTING MEMORIES 2020