That's really interesting Dacha ... as i've said, we have a good colony of bats here ... when I lived elsewhere I used to suffer really badly from mosquito bites, but although we're really close to the marshes I've not been bitten since we moved here in 2011 ... I thank the bats
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I think the bats do very well down near the dam where there are reeds and other things for insects to hide in. We don't have mossie probs around the house.
Possum is still looking positively milky. I have tried to persuade her to go and get some rays so she can go pale cappuccino instead and build up her vitamin D to help fight off colds when she goes back to a rainy grey Belgium autumn. Naturally, she is now parked in front of a Disney film soaking her feet for a pedicure.
I'm off to plant some new brassica plugs and then sew.
Love the wildlife photos Pat. Galahs are very pretty but a bit stoopid aren't they? Haven't seen or heard the local hoopoes lately so I assume the babies have fledged. Haven't heard the cuckoos either so I assume they're on their way back to Africa. Green woodpeckers vocal but invisible and the swallows are a-swooping with a vengeance.
Not surprised that bat is sticking around DL. Easy food and warmth while it's growing big and strong. Why would it leave yet?
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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My OH is a black haired blue eyed white skinned skinny-ribs of Scottish ancestry .........
Right, I've been creative in the kitchen ... I made mayonnaise yesterday for the chicken salad, so today I had three egg whites in the fridge ... I've just added another and made a Pavlova ... then with the 1 egg yolk I made some shortcrust pastry for a smoked salmon and chard quiche tomorrow ... I picked up some nearly out of date double cream in the farm shop the other day so that's been in the freezer but is out now and in the fridge to defrost.
Then I made a fruit compote with the last of last year's raspberries and blackberries and some blueberries from the supermarket ... that'll be dolloped over whipped cream on the pavlova.
Another day of feeling particularly angelic I think it's a reaction to having spent 6 weeks on the sofa
OH has been angelic too, and watered and fed the cues, toms, figs etc
I probably need to wash the kitchen floor ... but I'd better have a coffee first
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Dove , it is a preparation called "puppy milk" we got the info from a great Russian site all about the care of baby bats
Pat....I believe one bat can eat up to 3000 insects a night
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That's really interesting Dacha ... as i've said, we have a good colony of bats here ... when I lived elsewhere I used to suffer really badly from mosquito bites, but although we're really close to the marshes I've not been bitten since we moved here in 2011 ... I thank the bats
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Dove.....being a blue eyed Irishman (the Greeks call us aspirins on the beachs we are so white
) I know all about mossies 
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we always seem to be rescuing great insect eaters ......this little one got stuck in a ventilator and stayed with us for a few days until she flew off
I think the bats do very well down near the dam where there are reeds and other things for insects to hide in. We don't have mossie probs around the house.
Dacha have you not heard about Billy Conolly's pale blue Scottish people? It takes us a month of sun to get a white as normal folk!
Love the pictures of the wildlife folks.
Morning all.
So... milk bottle white is like totally in as a colour this season like!
It's the corned beef legs that are the killer!!!!
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Corned beef legs and baffies pp
Sit back from the fire.
Possum is still looking positively milky. I have tried to persuade her to go and get some rays so she can go pale cappuccino instead and build up her vitamin D to help fight off colds when she goes back to a rainy grey Belgium autumn. Naturally, she is now parked in front of a Disney film soaking her feet for a pedicure.
I'm off to plant some new brassica plugs and then sew.
Love the wildlife photos Pat. Galahs are very pretty but a bit stoopid aren't they? Haven't seen or heard the local hoopoes lately so I assume the babies have fledged. Haven't heard the cuckoos either so I assume they're on their way back to Africa. Green woodpeckers vocal but invisible and the swallows are a-swooping with a vengeance.
Not surprised that bat is sticking around DL. Easy food and warmth while it's growing big and strong. Why would it leave yet?
My OH is a black haired blue eyed white skinned skinny-ribs of Scottish ancestry .........
Right, I've been creative in the kitchen ... I made mayonnaise yesterday for the chicken salad, so today I had three egg whites in the fridge ... I've just added another and made a Pavlova ... then with the 1 egg yolk I made some shortcrust pastry for a smoked salmon and chard quiche tomorrow ... I picked up some nearly out of date double cream in the farm shop the other day so that's been in the freezer but is out now and in the fridge to defrost.
Then I made a fruit compote with the last of last year's raspberries and blackberries and some blueberries from the supermarket ... that'll be dolloped over whipped cream on the pavlova.
Another day of feeling particularly angelic
I think it's a reaction to having spent 6 weeks on the sofa 
OH has been angelic too, and watered and fed the cues, toms, figs etc
I probably need to wash the kitchen floor
... but I'd better have a coffee first 
Last edited: 01 August 2017 11:45:00
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