Off to walk another section of the South Downs Way with my sisters this morning. We are getting close to completing the whole trail (over the space of two years). Shaping up to be a nice day for it, which is good for the views 🤓. Think today’s section is about 18 miles (we are taking cake 🍰 ).
Hope everyone enjoys their Sunday (apart from @Hostafan1, who has Monday to look forward to .....)
Hope the cake and the walk prove to be very good Chicky.
Baking this morning to take to a session of the gardening club. We're meeting up to plant "domestic and kitchen" containers as deco for the plant fair next Saturday and they only ever offer plain brioche so I'm taking some chunky oatmeal, peanut butter, chocolate chip and cashew but biscuits.
Cold here and grey. Not inviting. I hope we all get some decent sunshine later on. Happy Sunday everyone.
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Hi all. When I opened the curtains this morning, I saw a Sparrowhawk dismembering a Wood pigeon, really brutal. Far to cold for any gardening today, so a bit more seed sowing I think.
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Morning. Looks more cloudy today, but the temperature hasn’t risen with it. Oo - that sparrowhawk must have been hungry, or just ambitious. Have a good day all - sowing, walking, working, making, mending or even relaxing.
I hope you enjoy your walk, Chicky, the South Downs are lovely. But 18 miles is a heck of a long way! Most I've ever done in a day is 17kms.
For some reason the 2nd episode of The Victim didn't record so we'll have to wait until we go to Norfolk to catch up. Same for Line of Duty but we forgot to record it when OH sang in the concert.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I got out of bed some time after midnight and went out of the back door to investigate a strange noise... there was a badger 2ft away from the door, dismembering a binbag of rotting leaves (presumably for the worms and insects?). It ran off, but returned once I'd gone back to bed. At least I knew what the noise was by then!
I'm about to go to the Town Hall for the final rehearsal before this evening's Brahms concert. There's a pretty determined east wind, hope it eases before I have to totter down this evening in my uniform...
Hope the loo is easy to fix, @islander. Do you have helpful friends around?
Apparently it's the female sparrowhawk which kills wood pigeons - males, being smaller, go for great tit sized birds on the whole. Not seen one for a bit round here.
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Just witnessed the reason for the birdbath toppling over... two visiting cats! Not seen them before. They enjoyed playing in the old apple tree. If they have left any ‘presents’ or have sniffed-out my birds nests - I won’t be happy.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Off to walk another section of the South Downs Way with my sisters this morning. We are getting close to completing the whole trail (over the space of two years). Shaping up to be a nice day for it, which is good for the views 🤓. Think today’s section is about 18 miles (we are taking cake 🍰 ).
Hope everyone enjoys their Sunday (apart from @Hostafan1, who has Monday to look forward to .....)
Baking this morning to take to a session of the gardening club. We're meeting up to plant "domestic and kitchen" containers as deco for the plant fair next Saturday and they only ever offer plain brioche so I'm taking some chunky oatmeal, peanut butter, chocolate chip and cashew but biscuits.
Cold here and grey. Not inviting. I hope we all get some decent sunshine later on. Happy Sunday everyone.
When I opened the curtains this morning, I saw a Sparrowhawk dismembering a Wood pigeon, really brutal.
Far to cold for any gardening today, so a bit more seed sowing I think.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Oo - that sparrowhawk must have been hungry, or just ambitious.
Have a good day all - sowing, walking, working, making, mending or even relaxing.
Greyer and colder today.
I hope you enjoy your walk, Chicky, the South Downs are lovely. But 18 miles is a heck of a long way! Most I've ever done in a day is 17kms.
For some reason the 2nd episode of The Victim didn't record so we'll have to wait until we go to Norfolk to catch up. Same for Line of Duty but we forgot to record it when OH sang in the concert.
I got out of bed some time after midnight and went out of the back door to investigate a strange noise... there was a badger 2ft away from the door, dismembering a binbag of rotting leaves (presumably for the worms and insects?). It ran off, but returned once I'd gone back to bed. At least I knew what the noise was by then!
I'm about to go to the Town Hall for the final rehearsal before this evening's Brahms concert. There's a pretty determined east wind, hope it eases before I have to totter down this evening in my uniform...
Hope the loo is easy to fix, @islander. Do you have helpful friends around?
Apparently it's the female sparrowhawk which kills wood pigeons - males, being smaller, go for great tit sized birds on the whole. Not seen one for a bit round here.