SlimLizzy
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- Normandy, previously Worcestershire
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- Prediabetes
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- football, both the game and the culture.
I do hope you are pleased with your new car.
I do hope you are pleased with your new car.Going to Chesterfield this afternoon to pick up my new car ordered it late last year so something to look forward to today.
We are feeling the same. We love country living , but sometimes think it would be nice if we could walk to a shop... here we need to take the car to go anywhere. Even to take our rubbish to the dechetterie. There is no collection this far out.Nice male bullfinch on patio at breakfast. What colourful birds the males are.
I don't know how I will live in town and miss all this wild life.
D.
We are just at that point now. Deciding if we should move now, or wait until we actually need to do so. Very difficult decision.We made the difficult choice to move a couple of years ago. I hope that you can find somewhere that will give you some happiness and joy. I find that my bus pass is a very good asset.
Maybe making such decisions are best made when not under the pressure of immediate necessity.We are just at that point now. Deciding if we should move now, or wait until we actually need to do so. Very difficult decision.
There was a sparrow rescued from the jaws of death on Friday. Held the back of Kiki's neck and shook gently, she released the dead sparrow- which immediately flew away with Kiki in hot pursuit. Tempted the cat down from the willow tree and shut her in the house for a while. But now she knows there are unwary fledglings out there. Have swept most of the mud off the road by the gate. Kiki was lurking in the hedge and attempting to grab the birds dustbathing there.That is a shame @SlimLizzy - although it is highly likely that lots of birds and other wildlife have survived in your garden.
I think moles don't taste very nice. Our cat never caught them to eat.Wish that was true. We have a murderous cat. She will hunt anything smaller than herself. This years known casualties : a bluetit, a robin, a couple of sparrows, whole nest of song thrush chicks, several voles, mice, a shrew, a small snake, one slow worm (may have survived minus it's tail) a lizard ( injured and probably died) Uncountable numbers of insects and spiders...
Counting them up I am actually a bit shocked.
Not exactly a haven for wildlife. Sadly
Seems the only things she doesn't catch are moles.
Not exactly a haven for wildlife. Sadly
I don't care if she eats them. They are a huge pest in the greenhouse and vegetable gardens. Digging up whole rows sometimes and undermining others so that the roots are dangling in air and the plants die. Although this year enemy No. 1 are the gastropods.I think moles don't taste very nice. Our cat never caught them to eat.
D.
Waited 20 years too long now do not know how we do it. This place is too much for us.We are just at that point now. Deciding if we should move now, or wait until we actually need to do so. Very difficult decision.
Difficult decision and all the best with that. We decided best to do so while we were both still active. It seemed to work as there were quite a few jobs to do to get our current house the way we wanted it.We are just at that point now. Deciding if we should move now, or wait until we actually need to do so. Very difficult decision.
Great trees @dunelmGood morning everyone on a not for long sunny start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. A cheery 5.3 this am. Opticians yesterday for an eye watering glimpse into the rising cost of eyewear - I thought I was being quoted for a business class flight to Bali. My wallet is now in a safe house and being counselled by specialists after the emergency ten shilling note was dragged screaming from it’s dusty depths and out into the artificial brightness of an array of embedded LED ceiling lights. Taking brother in law out to lunch today to celebrate his escape from respite care and making his way back home like a cat who is unimpressed by it’s staff suddenly, and without a by your leave, moving to a new house. Art bit - blooming eck! A bunch of trees. Stay safe, don’t watch any news today - it’s all about a shouting match where nothing much is actually said. Koffy, that’s the ticket.
Sorry about the nonsense post. Got a bit lost.
Ah@Lamont D. Could you be talking of Portmeirion? We spent the first day of my retirement there in one of the Italianate buildings which was very special but sadly during our evening meal in the hotel we received a call saying my father in law had been taken ill and we had to come home. Still a very special place in a lovely location.6.
I am number six.
Which reminds me of a holiday in N.Wales in the Conwy valley, a day out to the village that was the location of the tv programme. And the nearby beach, on a lovely summer's day.
Name it without Google please?
Tomorrow would have been my eldest brothers birthday he would have been 80.
Yeah a brother born on D Day. (June 6)
My next eldest born on the anniversary of Agincourt and Balacava. (Charge of the Light Brigade) (25 October)
Then closest brother born on the anniversary of Waterloo. (18 June)
Then there is me........... Mine is the anniversary of ......an 1862 battle of Hampton Roads.
Never heard of that!!!!!!!
I did when I collected chewing gum cards on the 100th anniversary of the end of the American civil war., I was ten. And this was so interesting and got my history interest part of my brain so curious.
hence my history A level, even tho my interest wasn't in that area that the exam was about. Industrial revolution.
have a lovely evening.
my best wishes to all and sundry.
of which the link is cricket and Irish didn't do so well.
Good that you rescued the sparrow from the jaws of death and good that you cleared the mud away so that Kiki cannot grab any more birds dustbathing there.There was a sparrow rescued from the jaws of death on Friday. Held the back of Kiki's neck and shook gently, she released the dead sparrow- which immediately flew away with Kiki in hot pursuit. Tempted the cat down from the willow tree and shut her in the house for a while. But now she knows there are unwary fledglings out there. Have swept most of the mud off the road by the gate. Kiki was lurking in the hedge and attempting to grab the birds dustbathing there.
That might be how she caught the sparrow on Friday, because she shows little patience, always tries to charge and grab. Birds usually see her coming and escape.
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