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Reasons to be cheerful 2021

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  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    That's a good reason to be cheerful BenCotto.
    I is a happy bunny this morning. Been outside tidying up and found the grey oyster fungi growing on a log that a friend gave me last year. I can uncross my fingers now.


    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire

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





  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    That's a lovely story Dove!
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I thought it was from the Dec 21st @BenCotto, have I missed something? 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    That’s the shortest day Lizzie. 

    Imagine that today the sunset is at 4.00pm and sunrise is at 8.00am. Then next week sunset is 4.05pm but sunrise is 8.10am. The day length is shorter but sunset is later. Of course these are simplified figures to illustrate the point.
    Rutland, England
  • My RTBC is a happy 5 minutes spent watching four tiny goldcrests fossicking in a holly bush, peeping away to each other and taking no notice of me...   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Goodness me I'd be chuffed if I had seen those Liriodendron
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I've never seen one
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Lovely @Liriodendron. I get them here, but only see them very occasionally, as they're a bit like wrens in that they tootle around in more hidden areas.
    When folk complain that conifers offer nothing to wildlife, just say 'goldcrests'. One of their favourite haunts. 
    I know I've said it before, but when my younger daughter was still at primary school, and the older one was at secondary, we'd have a twenty minute gap between the start times, so we used to park for five or ten minutes in a side road where a house has a conifer hedge. We often saw a couple of them popping in and out of it.  :)

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I've never seen one either. We do have goldfinches - lots  and a Jenny wren.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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