{"id":96513,"date":"2020-05-14T11:52:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T10:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/?p=96513"},"modified":"2020-05-14T12:01:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T11:01:21","slug":"dancing-bluebells-and-an-unusual-scarecrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/presenters\/jackie-kabler\/dancing-bluebells-and-an-unusual-scarecrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing, bluebells and an unusual scarecrow!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi all,<\/p>\n

How is everyone? I write this on a sunshiny May morning – doesn\u2019t nice weather make everything that\u2019s going on just that bit more bearable? It\u2019s definitely the little things that are making us feel more cheerful at the moment I think… a blue sky, a phone call with a friend, a nice slice of cake. I celebrated a lockdown birthday a couple of weeks ago and some bubbly and pizza at home was enough to make it feel special; I think this strange period has made me realise how little I really need to make me happy.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

My garden definitely makes me very happy and I was excited to see the arrival in the post of the big fruit and veg collection which was the recent Today\u2019s Special Value offer from Thompson & Morgan<\/a>. We built some raised veg beds a while ago, down at the back of the garden in an area we call \u201cThe Jungle\u201d, and I\u2019m now attempting to grow gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries, leeks, lettuces and garlic. I\u2019ll let you know how I get on!<\/p>\n

We have a lot of birds in our garden and although actual fruit won\u2019t appear for a while I suspect the birds might take an interest when it does. So I thought I\u2019d get ahead and get some sort of scarecrow as a deterrent. I\u2019d seen this hanging monkey online and wondered if it might work. He\u2019s now hanging happily in The Jungle and hopefully the birds will stay at the other end of the garden and leave my fruit alone – we shall see!<\/p>\n

Staying with nature I came across a lovely sight on one of my runs recently – an area of woodland I often run through is suddenly carpeted with blue (pictured above). How beautiful wild bluebells are!<\/p>\n\"\"\n

I also want to say a thank you this week to a little girl called Molly. There\u2019s an Instagram page which features \u201cmodels of media folk made using stuff from your house\u201d, and this photo has appeared of me, made by \u201cMolly, aged 10\u201d. Molly, if you see this thank you so much, I absolutely love it! I particularly love my hair (it won\u2019t look that good in real life very soon with all the salons still closed, help! Hopefully my naturally dark hair now has enough grey in it to blend in with the blonde or I\u2019ll soon look like a badger. Oh well… we\u2019re all in the same boat).<\/p>\n

By the way did you see the little fun video some of us presenters and guests presenters made for International Dance Day? If you\u2019re not on social media like Facebook or Instagram you may have missed it so I thought I\u2019d share it here. Dancing definitely lifts the spirits (even if you\u2019re RUBBISH at it, like me!).<\/p>\n