We used to get loads of greenies Lyn, but since I've moved back to this area, they've been non existent. I used Garden Wildlife Direct. They've been good. It's their posh fat balls, but the birds love them. I was thinking of getting some of the cheaper ones though, and using them for the 'sacrificial' feeder, . There's a wee one in the cage for the little birds to access. I always break a few bits up to put on the ground too. This one https://www.gardenwildlifedirect.co.uk/bird-suet-foods/bird-fat-balls.html?p=1
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Iâve been AWOL đ the garage phoned and said that the battery they ordered for me this morning had already arrived and they had a man free ... not wanting to miss an opportunity đ I dashed across the city and Lola now has her new battery đ Now to read back and see what everyoneâs been up to ...Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm about to do the opposite @Dovefromabove - head across the city to take fairylet to a Hallowe'en thing,and I'll hit all the rush hour traffic when coming back. There had better be plenty of the d*mn cake left. That's all I'm saying....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
With those suet blocks, I break them in half and they fit in a squirrel /large bird proof feeder, the ones you use for fat balls theyâd be gone even quicker if I didnât.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
Have I got my threads confused? Just been chatting about all this on the bird feeder thread.  I have seen just one or two greenfinches here this year which is one or tow more than the two previous years and the last 10 or so in the Belgian garden so maybe they're slowly making a recovery. Saw one lone golfinch a couple of months ago and he was at the front and not near the feeders.
Have had batter bovver too @Dovefromabove. OH plugged the air compressor into Sally's battery yesterday to pump up the tyres on the lawnmower and then gaily left the keys in teh ignition while he went to play. Car in garage so dark so automatic lights on situation.  I tried to set off to Patch and nothing doing. Clever boy!  Our lawnmower charger isn't powerful enough to tickle a car engine so he had to go and get Bruno from next door - ex car mechanic turned gendarme and asleep after the night shift......... Got us going and sent me off with his home-made leads in case I had bovver before I came home again.  Not only did OH drain the battery, he hid the keys too. Put them in his drawer and not the key drawer. Lesson learned - keep OH away from toys when he's "dying" from a cold.
We have cake @Fairygirl. I made a ginger carrot cake for patch yesterday and a second one for us to eat cos ginger is good for colds.
Hi Folks, just read back. @ Obelix we had flat battery problems in our car till I realised one GD was helpfully turning the rear passenger light on and leaving it on.
Just back from a very long day- Funeral in Bournemouth (ex BIL and friend from my Biker days only 68 cancer spread to his brain given 12 weeks lasted 2).  Relatively smooth trip down but 2 accidents on M25 on way back not big ones but enough to mean we crawled for miles.Â
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I used Garden Wildlife Direct. They've been good. It's their posh fat balls, but the birds love them. I was thinking of getting some of the cheaper ones though, and using them for the 'sacrificial' feeder, . There's a wee one in the cage for the little birds to access. I always break a few bits up to put on the ground too.
This oneÂ
https://www.gardenwildlifedirect.co.uk/bird-suet-foods/bird-fat-balls.html?p=1
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Now to read back and see what everyoneâs been up to
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There had better be plenty of the d*mn cake left. That's all I'm saying....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Have had batter bovver too @Dovefromabove. OH plugged the air compressor into Sally's battery yesterday to pump up the tyres on the lawnmower and then gaily left the keys in teh ignition while he went to play. Car in garage so dark so automatic lights on situation.  I tried to set off to Patch and nothing doing. Clever boy!  Our lawnmower charger isn't powerful enough to tickle a car engine so he had to go and get Bruno from next door - ex car mechanic turned gendarme and asleep after the night shift......... Got us going and sent me off with his home-made leads in case I had bovver before I came home again.  Not only did OH drain the battery, he hid the keys too. Put them in his drawer and not the key drawer. Lesson learned - keep OH away from toys when he's "dying" from a cold.
We have cake @Fairygirl. I made a ginger carrot cake for patch yesterday and a second one for us to eat cos ginger is good for colds.
Just back from a very long day- Funeral in Bournemouth (ex BIL and friend from my Biker days only 68 cancer spread to his brain given 12 weeks lasted 2).  Relatively smooth trip down but 2 accidents on M25 on way back not big ones but enough to mean we crawled for miles.Â