dirty protest

I really do wonder about the wren.  I've been in France for a while, so she's had free run of the shack. When I opened the shack door today for the first time in three weeks,  I was greeted by a pile of dry leaves.  She's obviously still got the pecking at her funny nest OCD.  Then I saw that she'd done some contraversial concept art on my chopping board.  Lots of tiny wren poos in a random dotted pattern.  Then I discovered a single one on my Learning the Guitar for Dummies book. Luckily I had covered it in glittery gold plastic wrapping paper. 

There were some other surprises too.  I seem to have acquired another chair.  It's one I've been coveting for a while, in my neighbour's allotment.  It  is like a deck chair, but with a slatted support for the body instead of a fabric one.  I had borrowed a chair that was near the same allotment, but outside it.  I was unsure of ownership, so I thought I would give it a change of scene.  it fitted like a dovetail into the bottom right hand corner of my allotment.  It gives a fine view of my land, and it is here that I see the interesting rainbows and light effects when the sun goes down.  Well, on my return I suddenly saw that it had a partner, the slatted chair, which was now in the corner position, with the other chair placed at a pleasing symmetrical angle beside it.  Who knows what chairs do when no one is looking.  They look a very well matched couple I must say.  I was delighted to discover that the slatted chair is in fact a rocking chair.  Lovely on a hot Indian summer's day. 

In actual fact, I suspect that its appearance is due to the kindness of my neighbour, who must have given me the chair, along with a huge tub of chicken manure which I found by the side of it.  I was going to buy some to give much needed nourishment to my land, so it is very timely.  It is very lovely of her, and I'm going to give her one of my huger pumpkins as a thank you. 

Another surprise was that the sunflower which was cruelly decapitated by the slugs has grown many heads in place of the one that was taken, and will look much more beautiful now when they all bloom. I'm glad I didn't pull it up now.  I'll know next time not to pull up decapitated sunflowers.  The slugs did for most of them along the maze fence.  I'm going to buy some oyster shells in bulk for next year.  Also I'm going to experiment with lambs' ears.  The velvety fur on their leaves is like spines to slugs and snails, so in theory will be an effective deterent as well as a pretty one.