I was once googling a plumbing question and Mumsnet came up in the search results. One lady said her husband was a plumber and had told her never to tip boiling water down a sink as it will melt the pipes and seals. Everyone seemed to take this as gospel and no one asked her how they managed to drain pasta in their house. The plumbing advice I've seen on there is better than most of the parenting tips though...
Big garden bird watch this weekend and my windows are now sparkling clean ready to try and count the sparrows. I ordered a new bird feeder a week ago though and so far there's no sign of it even being dispatched. I'm going to have to try and do a temporary fix on the broken one I think but I suspect the squirrel will break any repair within minutes.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I can guarantee that on the weekend of the big bird watch, all the birds that normally visit my feeders disappear to see what the neighbours have put out once a year.
I can guarantee that if I clean my windows like @wild edges we will have driving rain full of either sand or dust particles and filthy windows again and no birds. This year the French garden bird count is on the same weekend as the UK.
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)."
When I did the birdwatch with my brother (who works for the RSPB) he was even stricter than I would have been. If a bird flew over but didn't land, it didn't count. If it landed in next doors garden, even within a foot of ours, if didn't count!
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I can guarantee that if I clean my windows like @wild edges we will have driving rain full of either sand or dust particles and filthy windows again and no birds. This year the French garden bird count is on the same weekend as the UK.
Hopefully the old French attitude to wards birds has changed and they no longer count them by checking the number of used shotgun cartridges.
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Hopefully the old French attitude to wards birds has changed and they no longer count them by checking the number of used shotgun cartridges.