Small green things are pushing their way, at last, from the frozen soil. The hyacinths which should have been out and smelling divine for quite some time now, are only just showing colour.
Plenty of the mice are showing colour though.
You know why Medlar House Mice are pretty pastel colours don’t you? They eat a strange diet of Medlar fruits from the stately Medlar Tree, catkins from a Purple Hazel, leaves from a Silver Pear and Hazelnuts from a curly Hazel tree and it’s these which turns them blue and pink and green. All these unusual and pretty trees grow in the garden and so the mice are lucky little creatures.
Now they are clever mice too. They turn these raw materials into lovely food for themselves. They make cakes from the Medlars, sandwiches with the Silver Pear leaves and they boil the catkins to make Purple Tea, into which they dunk, Hazelnut biscuits.
There is a party going on at the moment, under the roots of the Medlar Tree. A tea party. Papillon knows that the best tea is brewed in the little brown teapot. Peacock is the one who dispenses the milk and Cowslip has been busy with her version of the French Fancy made from Sweet Medlars. It just needs Marshmallow to help eat them. Oh yes, she will help. She has such a sweet tooth.
“ Diet? What diet...”, she is asking.
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