Squirrel woes

Squirrels are evil little monsters. So far this year they have eaten half our tulip bulbs (and I'm sure they've got their eyes on the rest), probably all of the crocuses and dug holes in our newly laid lawn. Last year I stopped them by putting down some chicken wire but this year we were in a rush to plant the bulbs as the garden refurbishment had delayed everything so the chicken wire stayed in the shed. We won't make that mistake again but you can't put chicken wire over a whole lawn. We should have gone out and repaired the damage today but it has been so cold that we just couldn't face it. I suspect the squirrels are so cross that the garden has been altered and is no longer quite so squirrel friendly that they are determined to punish us for altering their habitat.

In other news I spent most of yesterday morning doing a Zoom course on medieval illuminated manuscripts and book production. It was really interesting (for me at least) and some of the slides we were shown were just gobsmackingly beautiful. There's another session next week and I'm looking forward to that already.

Tomorrow, hopefully, if he feels up to it we will be going to see our friend D before he starts chemotherapy for bowel cancer. I think he wants to talk about something other than hospital treatment so I suspect he and his partner are going to hear an awful lot about squirrels!