WE were sitting in the kitchen when something caught my eye as it moved on the lawn. The earth really did move for us that lunchtime thanks to a busy mole that produced a hummock of earth in the middle of the grass as we watched.
Admittedly it wasn’t quite as large as the mound that appeared next to the pond the next day – that was high enough to have a snow-capped peak – but it was still pretty impressive.
This spring the main issues we have been tackling in the lawn are moles, which have arrived from the field over the road, and moss that has spread because the lawn soil is compacted and a lot of grass was killed off by last summer’s drought.
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