The potting shed is...

...disappearing.

The garden is growing...

Early morning. The sun is finally out today.

Where am I?

Blissfully swinging on my swing....

UPDATE: a few minutes later - after all the effort Mr Blackbird took in clearing the garden of the tiny sparrows at Christmas, he wasted his time, because now he is spending all his time keeping his missus in check and chasing her paramours out of the garden (for some reason they haven’t been able to make any eggs between them) and missus is getting broody and inviting suitors back to the nest MrB made, AND the hedge sparrows have now come back en mass and have many nests between them in the same bushes and shrubs that Mr and Mrs B reside in, and are triumphantly feeding their own babies.

There is a bird bath beneath the bushes and is shared by Mr and Mrs B, and the hedge sparrows.

This is the first year hedge sparrows have nested in my garden in all the years I have been here. It is delightful to watch all these joyful tiny birds. They don’t even have to leave my garden for food. I never ever use insecticides and so there is greenfly galore on the willow and Rosa rugosa bushes. My garden is full of berries and Mr B sits on the branches gorging himself. Mr and Mrs B are starting their shenanigans early. The hedge sparrows are literally coming within a few feet of me...and Popeye is asleep at my side...

I will enter this for admirer’s SillySaturday challenge just because of silly Mr Blackbird!

I am sitting on my swing with paperwork to do...

UPDATE: 18:21 pm
Alarm calls among the birds especially the blackbirds. First thought was Popeye, but no he was asleep beside me...
So I went into the shrubs and bushes and there was a huge magpie right in the middle there, among the nests, right in front of my face. He took me by surprise and I swiped the magpie away from my face with my hand and roared at him and he flew away. But he is still in the cherry trees over the end of the garden....
I have never had a magpie in my garden before...

18:39pm I have just seen a Jenny Wren on the branches...

18:53pm I think any of the eggs or babies of the hedge sparrows have had it. That evil magpie is siddling up the lawn next door over the hedge where I can’t see or reach him. And getting into the bushes that way. He is out of reach of me and he had his escape route worked out this time into the neighbour’s garden...

19:14pm The poor hedge sparrows are coming up to me facing me within a few feet of me distressed (expecting me to help out again). I can’t get the magpie now because it has an escape route from their nests into next door’s garden. But then ravens began circling (I have 5 ravens that fly over daily), also some very large seagulls began circling, and the magpie fled....the hedge sparrows have gone back to their nests....

19:54 pm Stand off between me and Mr Magpie. Mr Magpie is glaring at me from the cherry trees and I am staring at him. But I need to go in as it is getting icy cold...