Here, on holiday in sub tropical queensland, the bat's are enormous. The bodies are a good 30cm in length and the wing span probably 70cm. They roost in trees during the day where they are plainly visable, they make a tremendous twittering noise and smell disgusting. Definitely not cute!
Gosh @Dovefromabove and @WonkyWomble - I'm probably in the middle of you two and we didn't even have any rain here, let alone a proper storm!
Just popped in to answer a query from someone who liked the pic of Lunaria Somerset marble I posted the other day. It's a new introduction from a local nursery so not available - but I've promised to save seed from mine. Which is looking glorious - hopefully the nursery will be able to propagate it and make more.
Definitely not Covid @Lizzie27 Have tested again today. Must say it feels similar but not so debilitating and no loss of taste or smell. The boys had exactly the same symptoms and they have tested negative all the way through. The coughing is the worst symptom. Coughed so hard have pulled muscles. I'm sure it will improve soon.
Morning everyone. Rain, rain, rain here. With a bit of luck there’ll be enough to give the river a clean out. 😁
The animals you are talking about are flying foxes, not bats, Suesyn. (common names). Ours hide through the day and fly around at night. Hubby inadvertently exposed them to light when he opened the box to check the car alarm thingy. 🙄.
We just heard that a bloke in the village has tested positive for Covid. Bit worrying. We won’t be going near anyone. Hubby’s sister in QLD told him that her husband has tested positive, as well.
Also - as well as asking our daughter to make a couple of bat boxes, sneaky Hubby went on line and ordered a couple from somewhere! Der! They’ll be spoiled for choice.🙄
Very blowy here this morning, th TV signal keeps going off. A baking day today, stocking up the freezer for whilst I am away next week. Charlie goes on Sunday to the UK with school and I set off for Nimes. That is after we have served "Afternoon Tea" at the local cinema to people watching a long two part English film. All very hectic, I'll be ready for my mini break.
Have a good day all, hope the poorly ones start to recover and others manage to stay clear of the Covid bug.
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Good morning all 😊 ☕️ Bright sunshine 8C and jolly windy here this morning. Don’t know how that storm missed you @didyw … it was a bit of a humdinger … friends in London got a storm too. One of those moments last night about 9:30 … the phone rang … it doesn’t usually ring that late, I was just going to bed … my heart skipped a beat … ‘what’s wrong?’ … you know the feeling … OH answered it … it was his mum just checking when we’re going to stay cos she’s got someone else coming to stay over Easter … we fixed on dates, said goodbye and went upstairs to brush our teeth … the phone rang again and this time I answered it … it was MIL again … just to let us know that she’s checked her diary and she’ll be out for two of the evenings we’re there … will we be okay with that? I said we’ll be fine … we’ll watch tv and go to bed … she can carry on with her social life, it’s important … she’s well into her 80s 😆 👍
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Pat E sorry, I thought flying foxes, which I thought were also called fruit bats, were a type of bat. Have I got them completely wrong? They certainly look like the cartoon drawings of vampire bat's and smell just as if they are the undead.
Good morning Dove and all to come. It's only 4C here and torrential rain in the night and this morning has kept me awake much of the time. I think I need a coffee to get me through the morning at least. Blue sky at the moment, so torn between gardening and ironing!
Suesun, sorry I was being a bit tongue in cheek. I think they really are bats, but they have a nick name of flying foxes I think mainly because of their size. They are also known for spreading bad diseases. 🙄
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Just popped in to answer a query from someone who liked the pic of Lunaria Somerset marble I posted the other day. It's a new introduction from a local nursery so not available - but I've promised to save seed from mine. Which is looking glorious - hopefully the nursery will be able to propagate it and make more.
Night night all.
The animals you are talking about are flying foxes, not bats, Suesyn. (common names). Ours hide through the day and fly around at night. Hubby inadvertently exposed them to light when he opened the box to check the car alarm thingy. 🙄.
Hubby’s sister in QLD told him that her husband has tested positive, as well.
Very blowy here this morning, th TV signal keeps going off. A baking day today, stocking up the freezer for whilst I am away next week. Charlie goes on Sunday to the UK with school and I set off for Nimes. That is after we have served "Afternoon Tea" at the local cinema to people watching a long two part English film. All very hectic, I'll be ready for my mini break.
Have a good day all, hope the poorly ones start to recover and others manage to stay clear of the Covid bug.
Bright sunshine 8C and jolly windy here this morning. Don’t know how that storm missed you @didyw … it was a bit of a humdinger … friends in London got a storm too.
One of those moments last night about 9:30 … the phone rang … it doesn’t usually ring that late, I was just going to bed … my heart skipped a beat … ‘what’s wrong?’ … you know the feeling … OH answered it … it was his mum just checking when we’re going to stay cos she’s got someone else coming to stay over Easter … we fixed on dates, said goodbye and went upstairs to brush our teeth … the phone rang again and this time I answered it … it was MIL again … just to let us know that she’s checked her diary and she’ll be out for two of the evenings we’re there … will we be okay with that? I said we’ll be fine … we’ll watch tv and go to bed … she can carry on with her social life, it’s important … she’s well into her 80s 😆 👍
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They certainly look like the cartoon drawings of vampire bat's and smell just as if they are the undead.
Blue sky at the moment, so torn between gardening and ironing!