Beautiful summer's day here. Been watching the birds sunbathing which always looks like they have crash landed from a great height. I usually mainly see blackbirds do this but today everyone has joined in - robin, dunnock, blue and great tits. The blackbird was not amused and began chasing them all away from her sunlounger spot.
Hmm the amelanchier berries are beginning to turn red and the fat woodpigeons are being ridiculous trying to perch on the finest of branches ... problem is they’ll snap them 😠
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No amelanchier here, which is something that needs sorting, but the birds strip the cherries and fig and plums that previous owners have planted. We are planning a fruit cage for us and the birds can have the rest. They seem to leave the grapes alone. Famous last words?
@Busy-Lizzie - the knee is a pain but it's worse if I stay still. I can walk for miles on it on an even surface and it will throb later but be OK at the time. I can also dance with it but now need one of those knee support dooberries just in case. If I sit, I limp when I get up until it gets moving again. Only use painkillers if I need a good sleep. Otherwise, just get on with it.
We've had great tits on our feeders his evening. Haven't seen one for a few weeks. Lots of birds chirping and cheeping and singing at the mo but I have no idea which apart from the obvious sparrows. Any good birdsong sites?
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Well despite all the trees being chopped down next door, we appear to have some newly fledged robins. They are fattening up on live mealworms. We are on the third kilo. Mummy fox and two cubs are getting two tins of dog meat a night, plus leftovers. To say we have no pets, I have a huge animal feed bill.
Today I planted another row of beans. Some of the seeds I planted in pots were munched by mice, what is left are pathetic, so I put them in, but dropped a seed at the side of each plant as well. I now have light, where before I had shade, so I am pondering moving some things. Of course , if three storey terraces get built on it, I will be back to shade. I think my Philadelphus virginal is the best it has ever been, but that is probably due to last summers heat.
Morning all. Funnily enough Boris wasn't keen to chat about his visit from the Police. Not very statesmanlike beaviour. Talking of hideous behaviour, I was channel surfing last night and saw a flash of the some women footballer push her finger against one nostril and project a huge stream of stuff from the other. Nice. Not. 12 hour shift at the coal face today. Do I do hair up, or down? Will it rain?
Been up most of the night, trying to sort out NDN's son, who was in our garden, screaming and shouting, obviously off his head on skunk, having not been allowed into his house. Didn't want to call police, the kid has enough problems, so sat with him for a few hours, to make sure he didn't need hospital. I am off to bed.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Busy-Lizzie - the knee is a pain but it's worse if I stay still. I can walk for miles on it on an even surface and it will throb later but be OK at the time. I can also dance with it but now need one of those knee support dooberries just in case. If I sit, I limp when I get up until it gets moving again. Only use painkillers if I need a good sleep. Otherwise, just get on with it.
We've had great tits on our feeders his evening. Haven't seen one for a few weeks. Lots of birds chirping and cheeping and singing at the mo but I have no idea which apart from the obvious sparrows. Any good birdsong sites?
That's what I did, starting listening to Boris, you can only take so much, went in the garden.
Funnily enough Boris wasn't keen to chat about his visit from the Police. Not very statesmanlike beaviour.
Talking of hideous behaviour, I was channel surfing last night and saw a flash of the some women footballer push her finger against one nostril and project a huge stream of stuff from the other. Nice. Not.
12 hour shift at the coal face today. Do I do hair up, or down? Will it rain?
Been up most of the night, trying to sort out NDN's son, who was in our garden, screaming and shouting, obviously off his head on skunk, having not been allowed into his house. Didn't want to call police, the kid has enough problems, so sat with him for a few hours, to make sure he didn't need hospital.
I am off to bed.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Hot here already so OH is out there early weeding the main front bed. I need to go and do some watering while the oven heats up to make a lemon tart.
Hair definitely up Hosta, for me anyway.
Have a good Sunday everyone.