Snippets just outside my workplace.

I am lucky enough to teach in a little room which has a sliding patio door, from which I step into this hidden world... it's sort of inside yet outside as well !

It's a funny little covered area, open at each end but with trellis along two sides and masses of thick Ivy at one end, where birds nest each year.

During the spring and summer, I can throw my door open whilst I teach... or if it is warm enough, we can take our work outside and learn whilst listening to the sounds of nature.

Generally, we tend to hang odd things on the trellis, mainly pictures and bird boxes.

Nothing has nested in this newer bird box ..yet!

The birds seem to prefer 'shabby'!

I picked this little painting up for 20p at a car boot sale a few years ago. It somehow appealed to me even though I know very little about Nantwich! It's by someone called Derek Copeland. If you happen to know him do say, 'Hi , your painting is in safe hands!'

And there's nothing more delightful than watching a parent bird feed its young...as C.F. Tunnicliffe shows us here...

We get all sorts of birdlife at 'Woodpeckers' and one day this one waddled in and stayed put...

And then 'you know who' wandered in, just for a nose!

This tucked away place is a part of my home where you can sit, put your feet up and forget the....

..and just revel in the delights of your surroundings .

There really is nothing like...

Is there?!