Events in our front and back garden can be quite interesting. Although we often go for long walks to have a look at interesting features of nature they also occur under one's nose. A couple of days ago we noticed that a piece of Yoredale series sandstone in our front garden had been split in two by frost shatter. This particular rock arrived in our garden about five years ago and it must have been split by our last severe winter. Pretty amazing. The other interesting event was that quite often over most of my life I have seen dandelion seeds like a big fluffy head on a stalk partially damaged which I always put down to the wind. I went into the study room yesterday and noticed a large fine male bullfinch perching on a lower branch of one of our conifers and it was eating the seeds on the head of the flower. It was also the first time I had seen a bullfinch in our garden.