Donât think @Fairygirl is going to need that tankerload @mikeymustard ... thatâs where she doesnât fit the racial stereotype ... weâll get the tanker diverted along your way đÂ
I was in the garden just now ... had to stand stock still while hanging the washing out ... a little flock of blue tits and longtailed tits flew down from the big ash to use the birdbath ... its the first time Iâve seen the longtailed tits using it đÂ
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Dovefromabove Yes - sorry to disappoint you @mikeymustard. More likely to be a bulk delivery of tea Or even skinny milk and wholemeal bread. I'm really trashing that sterotype now.....
Lovely having the long tails Dove. We're only getting them in this garden now and again, but hopefully more each year. Never seen them using a pond or anything before either, when they were regulars.  I was watching the wee goldies using the pond a few days ago. Really ham fisted at itÂ
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm saying no @Dovefromabove , but I have insider info Almost exactly a week ago, I was setting off to Cairngorm via the north corries, in glorious sun with blue skies and a good breeze. Just been looking at the MWIS forecast. Today for the same area, it's a bit different:
'Cloud will progressively fill in and lower from west, becoming extensive above 800 to 1000m in persistent rain, or lower near/west of the A9. [wind] 40-50mph before middle of day and onward, over 60mph high tops in afternoon with stronger gusts 3C at dawn, rising through day to 7C. Where exposed to strongest wind, chill factor feeling like -7C, perhaps -10C highest tops.' Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Fairygirl you'll be telling me you don't eat deep-fried mars bars or tunnocks tea cakes next!! There's a Scots cycle maker called Shand; couple of years ago at the cycle show they decorated their stand with tea cakes! They also celebrate their scotchlandishness by calling their bikes things like "stooshie" and "bahookie" Did you know "titmouse" comes from the Norse "tit mase" meaning little bird?
'Ma Bahookie' is what I'm sitting on right now @mikeymustard.... I'm proud to say I've never eaten a deep fried Mars bar, or any other deep fried chocolate item. Don't like Tunnock's teacakes either. I'm a real disappointment aren't I? Don't tell anyone, but it's possibly because I'm half English Didn't know about titmouse, but Scotland is very Norse, in lots of ways. Mainly because we used to be 'jined the gether'. The north of Scotland has more in common with Scandinavia than it does with London. Mind you, the north midlands probably has more in common with Scandinavia than with London I hope that disnae cause a stooshie...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Dovefromabove No sorry, to us, Norfolk is the far East! I'm in Cheltenham which is either the West country or south Midlands depending who you speak to (or little Ireland during race week)
My OH consumes probably more Tunnocks Teacakes than the rest of England put together ... he was born in Cambridgeshire, but his granny was Scots so that might explain it đÂ
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I was in the garden just now ... had to stand stock still while hanging the washing out ... a little flock of blue tits and longtailed tits flew down from the big ash to use the birdbath ... its the first time Iâve seen the longtailed tits using it đÂ
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes - sorry to disappoint you @mikeymustard. More likely to be a bulk delivery of teaÂ
Or even skinny milk and wholemeal bread. I'm really trashing that sterotype now.....
Lovely having the long tails Dove. We're only getting them in this garden now and again, but hopefully more each year. Never seen them using a pond or anything before either, when they were regulars. Â
I was watching the wee goldies using the pond a few days ago. Really ham fisted at itÂ
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Almost exactly a week ago, I was setting off to Cairngorm via the north corries, in glorious sun with blue skies and a good breeze. Just been looking at the MWIS forecast. Today for the same area, it's a bit different:
'Cloud will progressively fill in and lower from west, becoming extensive above 800 to 1000m in persistent rain, or lower near/west of the A9.
[wind] 40-50mph before middle of day and onward, over 60mph high tops in afternoon with stronger gusts
3C at dawn, rising through day to 7C. Where exposed to strongest wind, chill factor feeling like -7C, perhaps -10C highest tops.'
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Socks Dove? In September? You're such a lightweight....
To be honest, I rarely don't have socks on - at any time of year Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
There's a Scots cycle maker called Shand; couple of years ago at the cycle show they decorated their stand with tea cakes! They also celebrate their scotchlandishness by calling their bikes things like "stooshie" and "bahookie"
Did you know "titmouse" comes from the Norse "tit mase" meaning little bird?
I'm proud to say I've never eaten a deep fried Mars bar, or any other deep fried chocolate item.Â
Don't like Tunnock's teacakes either. I'm a real disappointment aren't I?
Don't tell anyone, but it's possibly because I'm half EnglishÂ
Didn't know about titmouse, but Scotland is very Norse, in lots of ways. Mainly because we used to be 'jined the gether'.
The north of Scotland has more in common with Scandinavia than it does with London. Mind you, the north midlands probably has more in common with Scandinavia than with LondonÂ
I hope that disnae cause a stooshie...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.