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lindisfel said:
I knew an electrician with a missing index finger on his right hand. He unwisely tested if a fan was running as a young electrician. A substantial fan it whipped it straight off no trouble. A bad mistake to make just once.
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One of my Uncles tested a lawnmower blade clearance this way.... brilliant man, but not at all practical. He was lucky to only lose small amount of fingertips.
 
As you know @Annb, sparrows are chiefly seed-eaters, but at this time of year, parent sparrows could be collecting larvae, ants, spiders, spiderlings or other soft-bodied invertebrates to feed to their chicks.

Friday's FBG 4.7 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.
 
jjraak said:
I think it's a test run, stock up on tinned foods, sunak & those in charge know what's coming.

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Oh, I don't know @jjraak. Somehow, I doubt whether Sunk is that well briefed or, if he is, his head's buried in the sand.

I mean he's called a general election when his party is languishing 20 points behind in the polls and 6 months before he needed to. That wants some explaining!

Friday's FBG 4.7 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.
 
Thank you for sharing your amusing video @gennepher and beautiful bluetit illustration.
(I've remembered your tip to avoid the asterisks).

Friday's FBG 4.7 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.
 
gennepher said:
I am currently eyeballing a sparrowhawk who has eyes on my little bluetit who is working hard to feed his family....just put more protection out there...
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Really? @gennepher. The sparrowhawks round here don't get out of roost for prey smaller than a starling.

In recent years, the female sparrowhawks have learnt how to knock off a wood pigeon. All that's left is its beak and a few feathers.
 
LivingLightly said:
Really? @gennepher. The sparrowhawks round here don't get out of roost for prey smaller than a starling.

In recent years, the females have learnt how to knock off a wood pigeon. All that's left is its beak and a few feathers.
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I have had misfortune last year @LivingLightly to witness the sparrowhawk get a couple of my small birds. I do not want to see that again ....
 
Good morning everyone on an all things bright and beautiful and wonderfully quiet start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. Girl In The Bubble brought home a sunflower in a little pot from pre-school yesterday. Quite leggy as the very clever teacher had kept them inside and on a window ledge. Still, we set about finding a cane and some garden wire and carefully placed it in the garden in “a nice place”. Some bushes trimmed and I think that there are wasps nesting in a low conifer - wide berth. Girl In The Bubble having a supervised go with secateurs as well as using her mini garden tools. Off down to Brum this morning for a treble dose of grandchildren, what fun. The Prime Minature and Sir Fear Karma seem to be dashing about, cashing in their carbon offsets. Luckily Nigel Mirrage has sniffed out some lucrative position as beer tasting advisor to the orange-turd in a display of compassion to the voting public and Gove has quit in order to learn the didgerydoo. A cure for not only snoring it seems. Art bit - oh wow - some trees! Hope your day is a Saturday. I ought to have some koffy and pack a bag.
 

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Long weekend coming up, was going to watch MONEY HEIST.

Cracking little TV series.

Was going to Rewatch it,
But the English version playing out on our tv's has reached an interesting point.

They've got the money, and are now slipping away hoping no one notices

I might give it a while longer, but I think we all know how it ends.....

No one in jail & they all live happily ever after, which lets be honest, is going to be a very disappointing ending.

Anyway, here's one of the scenes from the no 10 parties.

 
5.8 this morning. Last day of classes before half term. Am so looking forward to a relaxing week.
We have booked a dog friendly hotel for a couple of nights near the Suffolk coast. Part of the enjoyment for me is the planning. So will start tomorrow updating the packing list and choosing what book to take.
 
25.05
9.00am FBG 5.4
Where to start?
Good things: Last Sunday we went for a "picnic" with some friends at their newly established nursery which specialises in perennials and herbs. We were a good mix of people four english four French two Dutch and two babies one of them being half French the other English. He picnic turned out to be lunch in the nursery grounds with a table set up under a huge oak tree. We all contributed to the feast and conversation was varied in both subject and language. A good time was had by all until rain, actually a thunderstorm threatened and we all packed up and left. We had all finished eating and coffee by then, so good timing. There was intermittent thunder and rain as we drove the twenty minutes home.
 
LivingLightly said:
As you know @Annb, sparrows are chiefly seed-eaters, but at this time of year, parent sparrows could be collecting larvae, ants, spiders, spiderlings or other soft-bodied invertebrates to feed to their chicks.
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Yes - that's why I was puzzled. I didn't think there would be any seeds in amongst the lichen. It was back again yesterday a few times. It must be using an awful lot of energy to hover there, even briefly, to collect whatever it was collecting.
 
Could be that he knows something worse is coming and he wants out before it does.
 
6.4 today at 03.45.

Finally got some clearane in my kitchen. Neil has loaded the car with all the boxes, paper and so on to take to the recycling plant today. I can actually, as a result, get into cupboards and put away the utensils that I've had to leave on the table and a big box of plastic boxes that was on the floor in front of 2 cupboard doors, blocking access to them, is now in the larder, under the bottom shelf. Hurrah! Now that the floor is clear, I should be able to get it properly clean.
 
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