Even on a damp and dreary winters day there were lots of people out walking either with a pet or someone else or as a family.

This pays tribute to a wonderful park obviously well loved by lots and lots of people

I’ve adapted my face mask to go behind my head rather than over my ears. I’m trying to protect my hearing aid. We’ll have to see if it works! extra elastic at the top and Velcro at the bottom

Great walk today with Trevor.

Getting ready for Sunday’s walk.

Victor my tortoise went to the vets for his first worming. I’m hoping he will feel a lot better for this treatment.

I can highly recommend visiting 2doors studio on crewe Road, Alsager to look at Fred’s work. Ther are prints and original work for sale.

Fred is alocal artist based in Stoke on Trent and much of the work on show is based in the Potteries.

Victor was checked over last week by a specialist vet and given a clean bill of health (which is very good news) a poo sample is being tested for worms etc and the results are due next week.

I’ve attached the recommended dietary sheet for Mediterranean tortoises. Victor is a horse field.

There is conflicting views of what to feed. This one is from the specialist vet, so I’m going to use this as my guide. It will pose some problems as I don’t have a ready access to some of these wildflowers and herbs.

I have been feeding our hedgehog for quite a few months and I have seen the one below join him from time to time. (That is, we had 2 hedgehogs feeding).

I have put a feeding bowl in our back garden for our new addition. So we now have a front garden feeding place and a back garden feeding place.

For help the inhabitants of Alsager to locate hedgehogs in our area, I live on Station road.

This hedgehog was found in the garden next door. With the agreement of my neighbour we have moved him / her to our garden away from her dog. I hope it will be able to find a place to live in all the shaded places we have.

For those who are wondering, it is cat biscuits (not fish) and clean water that I’m feeding them on. I took this advice from the hedgehog stand at SHREWSBURY flower show. If anyone has better information, please let me know (via the contact me page).

For those struggling with arthritis there is an excelltent website called versusarthritis

with lots of information.

I recently had a flare up of osteoarthritis with my knee. The website has some exercises to do to help strengthen the muscles etc around the kne.

My doctor recommended the site and the information it gives.

Please let me know if you find this information useful

Yesterday I gave my 81st donationif you think you would also like to donate. Please download the NHS give blood app and find your nearest appointment.

In a few weeks time I will get a message to tell me which hospital my blood has gone to. I find this very rewarding to know it is being used to help someone else.this is what app looks like on the App Store. I would imagine that it is similar on the android play store

More broad beans from the allotment.