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Re: The Ospreys are back !!
1H1, a Manton Bay chick from 2022 sighted at Chew Valley today. She bred with Blue 374 at Poole Harbour nest 2 last year, raising 2 chicks.
Re: What are you all up to
I'm feeling extremely sad 😪😪.
I went to put some food for the birds over the fence onto the school field once the children had left for the day, as I often do if I don't want the dog to get it! Grapes today.
There laying in the field was 'our' hedgehog deceased. No blood, no inners just the prickly case. 😪😪😪.
I've asked a neighbour to contact the school so the remains can be removed before the children find them.
The field is adjacent to our side path, a good 6 foot lower than the level of our garden so I have no means to retrieve it.
I've never seen a fox, or evidence of one, in the garden - Dora would definitely have let us know, she loves their perfumed droppings.... or badgers.
We've had a beautifully sunny if chilly day. Washing dried on the line. A good walk across the fields for Dora on her 6th birthday. Where did those years go? The blue haze of the bluebells is getting stronger. Then I took himself for his hair and beard trim - I recognise him again now 😉. Plus we moved our existing Nationwide 1 access ISA's paying just 2.8% to their new one paying 4%. 😀. I call them the 'just in case' ISA's not needed to spoil things for 8 years 🤞. Almost time to review ISA offers for the new tax year 😉
Bakers2
Re: What are you all up to
Currently on the club site at Chirk, on the way home from Evesham after part exchanging our Van with no name for a small Coachbuild. Stayed at Chapel Lane site last night.
We broke the journey at Attingham Park NT for lunch and a stroll. Much better day, weather wise, than yesterday. Home tomorrow. Can't believe how busy the site is.
A couple of photos from today.
A worm in an apple!
The Repton Oak, about 650 years old but still going.
Re: The Ospreys are back !!
CJ7 mate 022 arrived back early this morning, hope they have another successful breeding year. I find it amazing how this all happens in nature, from wintering, separately, in Africa and finding their way back, almost together, to the same nest in Dorset. Same for all the others around the country.
heddlo
Re: View from my van window
New part-ex van on first night at Chapel Lane site. Seems ok. Bit of WD 40 needed on a couple of catches but that seems about it.
Re: View from my van window
Our caravan is parked at home down the side of the garage. We had nice weather last week so I checked all was well inside. This is the view that greets me as I step out of the caravan.
Colin
Re: Then and Now
You know my first
and this was the last
We owned them 50 years apart but there was 70 years between their build dates.
Luxuries? Well, everything really. The old Bluebird had none.
Re: What are you all up to
@eurortraveller I do feel your comment is a bit unnecessary. It was just part of a general discussion.
Re: What are you all up to
Neither of us expected her to make an 'off the cuff' decision - after she had said "I think you should come anyway", it was actually requested that she checked with the consultant and then got back to us. She declined.
I don't have an issue with the level or quality of clinical care, either she or I have had over the years. I do however have many issues and considerable experience of maladministration, abrupt and even rude attitude of some administrative staff and a general 'couldn't care less attitude' amongst some of them. That's the 'state of the NHS' to which I refer.
She is well aware of the discussion above and, indeed, cited her own recent experience as a further example.
I wasn't complaining, as such - just citing another example in support of @heddlo and @milliehull.
Your reaction doesn't surprise me.
