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Reasons to be cheerful 2023

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  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Now you mention it ours is just starting too.
    AB Still learning

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    KT53 said:
    If you haven't used copper tape before, or even if you have, be very careful when smoothing it onto the pots.  The edges can be very sharp.

    I also used it for several years without problem then one year shredded the end of my finger, thankfully not very deep. 
  • 2000GTV2000GTV Posts: 112
    2021 I saw a hoopoe in the garden. 2022 I saw a hoopoe in the garden. Last week I saw three hoopoes in the garden. They are quite shy and nervous birds and the best I could manage was a distant video. I had just crept behind a tree when OH drove up the driveway and scared them off - so much for my stealth ... Today, their distinctive call alerted me to the fact they were back in the garden and one was perched high in a conifer but taking a good photo remains something to aspire to. Beautiful birds and feel blessed to share my garden with them.  
    Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy
    Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    We have hoopoes too but more heard than seen.  I occasionally get a flash of a tail disapearing into the hedge between us and next door.   

    I also get cackled at by a green woodpecker far more often than I see it and, funnily enough, the blackbirds are shy too.   Heard but not seen.
    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
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    "Our" Hoopoes are back in the garden as well, lifts the spirits doesn't it @2000GTV .
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Yes @floralies.  forgot to mention the cuckoos, heard but never seen either and the swallows and house-martins are now back in force after a couple of very early birds in the first week of May - 3 weeks ahead of their usual schedule.

    That means I can't go in the ruin and get out the garden furniture on my list to renovate this year as I don't want to disturb them.  Planned to get it allout before the 21st but now I won't be feeling guilty as it won't be sat staring at me from the garage.

    Plenty of other stuff to get on with and it's a joy to have these birds swooping and calling again.
    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
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I'm using the same "I don't want to disturb the birds" for jobs I don't want to do too. :D
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I've just done my first bit of 'proper' gardening since the hip replacement in February.  I'd forgot what it was like to be able to bend normally to get down to soil level.  It's great :)
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I had thought my favourite potted fuchsia had died over the winter but this morning saw tiny green shoots in the middle - I'm so pleased.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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