Weekend, 24th-27th.

 Had a good weekend, we went to Reddish Vale Park and saw our friend Rodger, who had lost his dog though illness a few weeks ago and there he was with this little beauty.

It had belonged to a lady who had died and was going to be put down, so lucky Rodger and lucky dog.

Regulars will know where this is, Nuthatch enjoying the seed.

Cormorant on the top Mill pond.

Will you look at the size of this terrapin!

Looking if the Coot has any eggs for its dinner.

The Squirrels here like monkey nuts too.

Take them out of your hand.

At our visit to Pear Mill this weekend, there was this little shih-tzu, two years old, very cute.

This Peregrine was there, think this is one of the parents.

This was another, but a young one, on the big chimney.

We had a visit to the Debdale nature centre on the Sunday, no one had been there for a while and all the feeders were empty, luckily we had some premier fat balls and plenty of monkey nuts with us, so we stocked up the feeders and soon had loads of Magpies flocking round.

They were enjoying the monkey nuts and hiding them and coming back for more whilst the Squirrels were watching where they were buried!.

Fancy meeting you here!.

Did you know?.

A young Blue Tit.

and a Great Tit.

This Blackbird stocking up on the berries

We were up in Oldham today with Pepe having his wash and trim, i'm sure he must feel better afterwards if its only for the bacon scraps I save him from my visit to the Village Manor Bakery, it's worth the trip up to Oldham to go there!.

On the way home we called at the Snipe Retail Park for some shopping at Home Bargains (bird food// dog bed) mostly, and Pepe insisted we visit O'Neilds meals for another bacon buttie and a nice coffee, while the posh people were going in Costca Coffee at twice the price!.

Back home my Wax plant is flowering again, I bought it years ago from a garden centre in Chadderton and its kept flowering ever since the best £5 plant I've ever bought.

A Hoya Carnosa.

Hoya is a genus of over 500 species of tropical plants, and as their common name suggests the flowers and leaves look like they have been made in wax, very unusual.

This one isn't in soil, but gravel and just needs the gravel to be topped up with water.

Well, it's nearly the end of another month and my central heating has just come on so it must be getting colder, had to get one of my winter coats out today as well.  

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