Saturday afternoon there was such a noise outside five !! Blackbirds were chasing off a huge Magpie..the damn thing kept trying to drive a blackbird into the hedging. Yesterday morning carnage on our lawns( in three areas) and next door. Obviously blackbird remains. It did me no good when I opened the blinds to see it pecking and eating bloody sinew from a wing. OH collected and disposed of all the remains, Three feet, some internal organs, wings and beaks, at least two had been killed.
We have had a solo rook around for a few days and when the Magpie came back today it chased it and eventually it took off. I had wondered if the rook was the culprit and Magpie just feeding, don't think so as the other birds aren't scared of the rook but head for the hills when that damn thing comes back.
We have been adopted by a pair of ducks. Mr Mallard follows her every move. Mrs M tends to sit on the bird food watching the small birds eat and they go for walks across the grass, whilst the dogd watch from the living room window with their tongues hanging out and tails wagging. I do hope they aren't trying to nest and lay in our pond as we have the two horrors who will finish all that for them.
Hosta - move the conifers. Much easier to replace those than shifting a rock. We dug up a huge flat slab of local blue stone which had been hiding a well and moved it to be the new stone for loose feed under the bird feeding arch. Got our farmer neighbour to do it with his tractor.
Soggy here. been out and about doing errands and that meant a drive through our local woods carpeted with stunning bluebells - proper ones. Stunning even on a wet, grey day.
Accents - I use and AZERTY keyboard as most of my stuff is done in French now and that has built in accents. Can't use a QUERTY now without thinking about every stroke but used to do the Alt thing too.
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)."
Busy day for me today and you've all been very busy chatting away.
Hosta's rock looks as though it needs burly men with big boys' toys to come and shift it. You don't need a hernia as well a dodgy knee! I'd love a few boulders like that in my garden though - we just get huge flints, roofing felt and breeze blocks..
Hope Clari's archivist turned up. Nothing worse than feeling ill prepared for giving a talk.
Really sorry to hear P'Doc has had an upsetting PM. No need for rudeness or unpleasantness anywhere on this forum - civilised debate and discussion is one thing. Personal insults are something else entirely.
Time to do something about dinner - SYL
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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it's the only one I know.
p.s. I won't care if Magpies are nesting at mums.
Saturday afternoon there was such a noise outside five !! Blackbirds were chasing off a huge Magpie..the damn thing kept trying to drive a blackbird into the hedging. Yesterday morning carnage on our lawns( in three areas) and next door. Obviously blackbird remains. It did me no good when I opened the blinds to see it pecking and eating bloody sinew from a wing. OH collected and disposed of all the remains, Three feet, some internal organs, wings and beaks, at least two had been killed.
We have had a solo rook around for a few days and when the Magpie came back today it chased it and eventually it took off. I had wondered if the rook was the culprit and Magpie just feeding, don't think so as the other birds aren't scared of the rook but head for the hills when that damn thing comes back.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I seem to have been fortunate to have been outside pottering most of the day although the sun has gone by lunchtime. Getting cold now.
I've ordered more evergreen geranium "St. Ola" as it does well in dry shade and the white flowers brighten the area. Nice and compact.
We have been adopted by a pair of ducks. Mr Mallard follows her every move. Mrs M tends to sit on the bird food watching the small birds eat and they go for walks across the grass, whilst the dogd watch from the living room window with their tongues hanging out and tails wagging. I do hope they aren't trying to nest and lay in our pond as we have the two horrors who will finish all that for them.
Hosta - move the conifers. Much easier to replace those than shifting a rock. We dug up a huge flat slab of local blue stone which had been hiding a well and moved it to be the new stone for loose feed under the bird feeding arch. Got our farmer neighbour to do it with his tractor.
Soggy here. been out and about doing errands and that meant a drive through our local woods carpeted with stunning bluebells - proper ones. Stunning even on a wet, grey day.
Accents - I use and AZERTY keyboard as most of my stuff is done in French now and that has built in accents. Can't use a QUERTY now without thinking about every stroke but used to do the Alt thing too.
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Hey! It works! É as well. Can I find the others, I wonder....
á é í ó ú
grave? circonflex? cidilla, even?
OH has a continental keyboard as well (which is very confusing) with all of them on.
Try a Greek keyboard
Is that like a Continental cheeseboard?....
doc- hope you enjoy your lovely break with Mrs doc, and yes, out the nasty PMer,or at least report them. No excuse for that kind of nonsense.
I'd be like you too Hosta - once I've decided something's in the wrong place....
Although I think obelixx's idea of moving the conifers is the easiest solution!
Damn chilly here.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Evening all.
Busy day for me today and you've all been very busy chatting away.
Hosta's rock looks as though it needs burly men with big boys' toys to come and shift it. You don't need a hernia as well a dodgy knee! I'd love a few boulders like that in my garden though - we just get huge flints, roofing felt and breeze blocks..
Hope Clari's archivist turned up. Nothing worse than feeling ill prepared for giving a talk.
Really sorry to hear P'Doc has had an upsetting PM. No need for rudeness or unpleasantness anywhere on this forum - civilised debate and discussion is one thing. Personal insults are something else entirely.
Time to do something about dinner - SYL