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HELLO FORKERS - Jan 2020 😊

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Good morning.  It is very sunny with clear skies and a biting wind so OH has lit a fire.  

    I spent hours on Sunday baking cakes to "mature" for scrabble with students this pm.  Just had a mail to say they're not coming as too many have flu.  B****r!   We'll go to the meeting anyway as someone has to help eat a 10" square parsnip and maple syrup cake, a triple chocolate and almond loaf and a fruity Borrowdale teabread.

    OH's new lawnmower was delivered this morning so I need to get my brain turned to where I want the new shrubs and trees border (long and sinuous in the back grass area) and how big I can get away with for a wildflower meadow in the middle area.

    Hope your new wisteria does well @Hostafan1 .  Hope you get some relief soon @Pat E.   Good neighbours are treasures @Dovefromabove and I am nevious of your jays @punkdoc .   Haven't seen any here.

    Have a good day everyone.


    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)."
    Plato
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    They take the peanuts and sometimes the fat balls, but leave the mixed seed and the Nyger seed.
    We love them and get a lot of them as we are so close to woodland. They can make a hell of a racket though, especially when there is a marauding gang of them. [ Apparently the collective noun is a scold of Jays ]
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    We have a lot of Jays in France, but they eat most of the cherries and greengages so I'm not so keen on them.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited January 2020
    Better than a murder of crows @punkdoc.   We get swarms of starlings that dive in and consume every single fig on our tree, just as they're getting to size to start ripening for human consumption.   I've planted another that will be caged for us.  Other birds scoff the fruit on the established cherry and plum trees here too but they're welcome to the Mirabelles which are far too sweet and bland for me.
    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)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2020
    For one reason and another the buddleja in front of our sitting room window didn't get it's usual pre-winter cut back ... just recently its been full of blue tits queueing up for the nearby sunflowerheart feeder ... just now one of them sat on the windowsill and stared in at me for a couple of minutes ... a new spin on 'bird watching'  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    We have been getting a Jay regularly this year for the first time. "Ours" is taking seed from the feeder even though it has a guard that is supposed to stop the bigger birds from getting access.
    AB Still learning

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I seem to have a poorly starling in the garden. He's bobbing about alongside me . He CAN fly, but seems to like hanging around. Most odd.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We had one like that a few years ago @Hostafan1  ... he was a juvenile ... he seemed to like our company, but eventually he disappeared ... think the sparrowhawk got him.  How’s the gum?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Dovefromabove said:
    We had one like that a few years ago @Hostafan1  ... he was a juvenile ... he seemed to like our company, but eventually he disappeared ... think the sparrowhawk got him.  How’s the gum?
    The gum is improving. I've just been down to Waitrose and told them I'll come back to work next Thursday. They seemed very pleased.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Awww they miss you 😘 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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