blu tac over the camera on my laptop. Don't you know China are watching us all?
Have always put masking tape on mine! Often read my iPad in bed. Not taking any chances, even if I suspect the sight of me might permanently disable any screen watcher.
Sorry folks- but our rain's still on, although just smirry stuff now. Apart from a couple of hours yesterday, early morning, and the same yesterday evening, it hasn't really stopped since the thunderstorm on Sunday night. 37mm since then, 26 of that in the last 24hours. I'd send you some, but....
A Chinese man is dragged along to a party by his partner, who proceeds to mix and leave the Chinese man by himself. Being sociable, he goes over to someone else by themself and starts a conversation:
'Ahh, hewwo, what do you do for a wiving?'
'I'm an accountant'
'oh, a accountant eh? ...that must be vewwy intewesting..'
...
having broken the ice, the conversation continues until that lull creeps in, at which point they both move off to find another 'victim'. The Chinese man approaches victim 2:
'Ahh, hewwo, what do you do for a wiving?'
'I'm a chief constable...'
'oh, a chief constable eh? ...that must be vewwy intewesting..'
....
the pattern repeats, until he has approached virtually everyone - but he sees another poor sod by themself and approaches with stealth:
'Ahh, hewwo, what do you do for a wiving?'
'I'm a comedian...'
'oh, ok smarty pants, let me see you change cowour...'
Loses something in the switch from a spoken joke to being written methinks...
I opened up one of the water butts to check the levels and there was a complete carpet of flying ants floating on the top. There must have been several thousand of them drowned in there. The roof has been crawling with them for days so I guess they got washed off in that big downpour yesterday. I also took the cover off the dip tanks so they'd get some rain only to find a sparrow had drowned in there when I checked it later. It's got a couple of big lumps of polystyrene floating in there and some netting draped over the edge to make sure creatures can get out but it still got stuck. My guess is it got caught in the heavy rain. There's several water baths for birds, beasts and bugs in the garden as well as the pond so it didn't need to go in there to drink.
In better news I saw three bats come out of my roof last night. I thought we just had the occasional one but this might mean we're working up to a breeding colony.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I hardly ever see bats here @wild edges despite their being a whole ruined but still roofed farmhouse for them to roost in. However, OH has been sleeping in another room while I'm recuperating from the new knee and has been visited by a pipistrelle he had to rescue. Last night Possum was visited by another.
OH spent the last couple of days cleaning and fixing our water butts as we are forecast rain tomorrow and he'll be away playing golf for 3 days. Rain has arrived ahead of schedule which is great but he still hasn't done owt about the one next to the hen house where his guttering is sloping away from the butt...........
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)."
Earlier today, waiting to pull out from our local Co-op, I saw a car approaching a pedestrian crossing at speed i.e. clearly over 30. A woman who was about to step onto it thankfully realised the car had no intention of stopping. The car hit the traffic calming 'pillow' and I clearly heard a bang as it bottomed out. Didn't even slow down. I assumed the driver was going to be either a young speed freak, or somebody who shouldn't be driving any more due to diminished ability. It was actually a middle aged woman who clearly didn't give a .....
Oh I say I like that wild edges. Too much time on your hands?
I was on babysitting duties and building stuff with the kids. I've been building them a marble run out of scrap too which has been very popular. It hooks on the fence outside and links up with lots of bits of old drainpipe and stuff.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Re 'Fanny', the Irn Bru advert from a few years ago attracted attention with the baby being named Fanny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcKlVojfMD4
Classic
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
OH spent the last couple of days cleaning and fixing our water butts as we are forecast rain tomorrow and he'll be away playing golf for 3 days. Rain has arrived ahead of schedule which is great but he still hasn't done owt about the one next to the hen house where his guttering is sloping away from the butt...........