Summer garden
Garden
We’ve had rain and cool weather – not complaining! The garden is especially glad of the damp, and since today the damp is not actually falling out of the sky, Cooky and Coriander went out to the garden…
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Rain drop
…where Cooky found a raindrop…
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Nodding
…and Coriander visited the nodding onion!
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Sweet silence
Cooky learned that if you stand very still and listen, you can hear the little sounds – cheeping birds, the rustle of insects, and the snuffle of…
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snuffle
…a hedgehog…
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Two!
…and another one…
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Still
…in fact an entire hedgehog family!!
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watching
Coriander and Cooky were very quiet and watched them…
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trot
…doing their hedgey hoggy things…
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homeward
…and then went back to the Hitty cupboard for their tea…
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amble
…and the Hedgehogs snuffled back to the hedge for theirs!
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Quimper Hittys 
I love their discovery of the hedgehogs! The Hittys look so sweet and joyful with the garden background 🙂
The Hittys love the garden, particularly at this is the time of year when it is so beautiful, and though we wish it wasn’t quite so rainy, the garden loves the cool and damp. And as long as the Hedgehogs have a flower to sniff or a beetle to eat, they are happy in our garden too!
The variety of life in your garden surely prompts curiosity.
It is very pleasant out in the garden and something new is always popping up to surprise us! It is so enjoyable to greet old plant friends and to put new perennials into gaps in the garden, and hope they will survive to surprise us next year!
I do love your Hitty tales. Thank you. They bring cheer to my day.
Aw, thanks! We have fun in our Hitty world, it makes us happy to see the world from their perspective some times…such fun to spend time with them in the garden!
Reading about the Hittys’ little adventures and seeing your beautiful photographs is such a delight. Thank you so much for sharing.
If I wanted to make a Hitty doll (I adore yours!),, where would I begin? Thanks.
Thank you! We love having little adventures! Carving a doll is a joy and a delight for me – I normally start with a blank, either sawn or turned on a lathe. I am lucky to have had marvellous and generous teachers to show me the way. Perhaps you could start by looking for wood carving or whittling clubs or classes near your area.
I see Coriander is enjoying her pinafore, Cooky’s tiny yellow shoes are wonderful and the hedgehogs are very cute.
Coriander loves her pinafore! And Cooky loves her little yellow shoes…We like to keep the dolls happy with their outfits! I had a hedgehog living in my garden when I lived in the UK – I felt very pleased about that! Luckily we have little Hitty Hedgehogs in the Quimper Hitty garden since real live ones don’t live in North America!
An array, a prickle, a bed or host of hedgehogs. I think I like a prickle of hedgehogs best as the collective noun, and the Hittys were so well placed to catch sight of them.
A prickle – yes that is perfect! Cooky and Coriander were very quiet and still so the hedgehogs didn’t mind them!
I always look forward to the Hitty adventures. ❤️
Thanks! I have fun telling their stories to an appreciative audience!
love the herd of hedgehogs! How delightful. We do not have them here altho we do have a very chunky woodchuck who appears from time to time near the woods. Always a delight to visit your garden with the girls.
A positive prickle of Hedgehog delight! We don’t have real live ones around here either – and no woodchucks either, but the Hitty Hedgehogs are delightful and entertaining.
I love those hedghogs!
I love them too – the one knitted by my granddaughter is my current favourite!
I am not surprised! I spotted that one and loved it.