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Reasons to be cheerful 2021

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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Hot radiators,but you don't  want them now. Me, yesterday went out to a sea front hotel with my friend next door,it's her birthday this week,first time we been out for about 15 months,coffee,cake and alcohol. The weather was lovely,clouded up early on,was worried because they have no shelter. Got up this morning it was raining,b****r,I thought, desided to go to a garden centre I haven't visited for about 18 months,sun came out,bought 2 unusual house plants I've never heard of
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Hot radiators,but you don't  want them now. Me, yesterday went out to a sea front hotel with my friend next door,it's her birthday this week,first time we been out for about 15 months,coffee,cake and alcohol. The weather was lovely,clouded up early on,was worried because they have no shelter. Got up this morning it was raining,b****r,I thought, desided to go to a garden centre I haven't visited for about 18 months,sun came out,bought 2 unusual house plants I've never heard of
    Don't need them???? It's freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezing. We had a Max of 13C today
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Goldfinches have fledged! Their flying skills need a bit of work.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Dwarf French beans have popped up. 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    Our cat has put the willies up the 2 magpies who decided to build a nest in a tree in next doors garden by climbing up to the nest, luckily no residents yet so murder most foul did not occur and they have abandoned it finally after 3 days of a hell of a racket the magpies were making everytime she went in to our garden.

    Not a fan of magpies bunch of thugs, but I don't like to see the cat kill birds so hopefully they will find a nesting spot elsewhere now and deny our murderous feline the instinct which she uses so effectively to the detriment of the bird population.

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Broad beans!  The first pods are looking good and I expect to harvest a few for Sunday dinner.

    @Kili Neither of our cats manages to catch birds but our huntress scared off a stupid pair of wood pigeons who started building a nest in the wisteria she uses to climb up to the annex roof.   She tries to get sparrows nesting in the roof of the hen shed but they're far too clever for that.  She's a good mouser tho.   The fat boy contents himself with herding hens and has no idea about how to catch a mouse.
    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
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    Obelixx said:
    Broad beans!  The first pods are looking good and I expect to harvest a few for Sunday dinner.

    @Kili Neither of our cats manages to catch birds but our huntress scared off a stupid pair of wood pigeons who started building a nest in the wisteria she uses to climb up to the annex roof.   She tries to get sparrows nesting in the roof of the hen shed but they're far too clever for that.  She's a good mouser tho.   The fat boy contents himself with herding hens and has no idea about how to catch a mouse.

    Obelixx  Maybe that's what I need to do is feed her up so shes so fat she cant catch them. She regularly catches young birds once they fledge. If they so much as dare touch down in our garden its a death sentence.

    I always worry about the damn cat , a responsibility I never wanted since our last passed away 10 years ago (Its the wifes forced on me by our adult children who thought it would be a good idea to get her another) because we have a monstrous Marsh Harrier which regularly hovers overhead, but its never gone for her even though she's a tiny cat compared to the average.
    Maybe cats don't taste very nice from the Harriers perspective!



    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    The prolonged cold has meant our tulips are giving us a longer display.  Even Monty mentioned it on GW this evening.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    @Kili apparently well fed cats kill more because they have energy and don’t just stop when they have eaten their fill.
    Fiance wants cats for work to help reduce rodent population and was advised to keep them well fed and to get females, preferably black. 
    I don’t like the idea myself but at least it’s quicker than death by poison.
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