August Bank Holiday week end, 27th- 30th.

The August Bank Holiday was quite good for us this time, made contact with the people at the Debdale Wildlife Centre and was surprised to see the great progress Vicky and Chris and their volunteers have made since the last time I visited.

They  had been trying to get my contact number to see if I was alright, as they hadn't seen me for a while, nice to be missed isn't it. In this Pandemic situation you never know if you will see your old friends again, it's a lottery if you don't look out for yourself these days!. 

Now my foot problem is easing I will be able to visit a bit more often, a new bird house and a lot more feeders not to mention the great variety of beautiful plants. 

There was Tea & Coffee over the weekend too.

Even table decorations.

The Nuthatch in their classic pose, usually upside down too.

A Blue Tit and Great Tit sharing a feeder.

A nice fluffy Great Tit.

This is a Coal Tit, one of the nicest Tit's I think.

Can always tell them apart with the white stripe up the back of their head. 

A Dunnock, a bit like a Sparrow but as you can see a slimmer beak, don't look in the trees for these as they are usually feeding on the ground!.

The beautiful Goldfinches like mine at home.

The next event if you are into Bats!

On Bank holiday Saturday and Monday we were at Pear Mill Cafe and had our personal favourites whilst the dogs had their Ham and Sausages, their favourites!.

Did I drop some there Dad?.

All gone Pepe, 

Our table decorations on the day.

Novelty Milk jug

The weather has been dull but dry, better for hairy Pepe.

Didn't stop the kids enjoying the canoeing lessons at Debdale sailing centre.

So all in all a good weekend and not too many crowds about, perhaps all dashing down to the sea and a good dose of the virus!.

Over the weekend, well half hour, made an exercise device for my foot I saw on Amazon in plastic and thought I can make one of those with scrap wood offcuts from my kitchen refurbishment.

Just needs cleaning up and painting to make it look better still.

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Typical hey!

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A woman has the last word in any argument, Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument!.

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The Past week, 21st -25th August.2021.

 The past week has seen my staircase hand rail fitted and very nice it looks too, though not sure if its not too heavy looking?., still its been without for 50+years so perhaps will grow on me.

Needs sanding and staining yet to match the other side.

This week at Pear Mill café friend Peter got this Cow milk jug for a change, decorative but a terrible pourer!.

Yesterday Tuesday, went to Clarks shoe shop again and bought another pair of shoes (Black) and a nice pair of boots (Brown).

When I sat down to try on the selection the lady brought me, I realised that there was blood stains down my trousers, couldn't see where it was from, but I'd done a little job on the stairs before leaving home and had knocked my elbow and it was bleeding, goodness knows what she thought I was doing with blood on me, but never mentioned it, perhaps thought if she mentioned it I would kick off!.

She was quiet happy though when I bought these and perhaps happier too see the back of me!

 

Then it was off to the Ressers at Debdale to see what wildlife we could see.

This seems to be the boss Swan on the lower lake at the moment showing off how big he is!.

Free wheeling

Got himself a mate it seems.

There was a couple of these beautiful Great Crested Grebes there too.

 These are my favourite water birds!, and got me started Twitching, or bird watching if you know it as that.

At one stage this one was doing a type of scooting along the water with its bottom well down in the water, not seen them doing that before.

And this is the only baby to be seen, quite different colours to mum and dad hey, must be camouflage whilst they are vulnerable to predators.   

Saw a couple of these Grey Wagtails flitting at the waters edge where they seem to like best, perhaps its the best place to catch flying insects,

Yellow Wagtails are mostly all yellow and have a shorter tail to wag!, They are on my bucket list.

Back home we still have a load of baby Goldfinches, this is one of the latest brood.

This one is from an earlier brood and you can see its just starting to get its red face like its parents.

This one is an earlier one still.

This is one of the parents, very colourful aren't they. 

Well that's it for another day, off to watch the Paralympics, what dedication they have, makes one ashamed  to complain of ones  aches and pains don't they.

Perhaps get on to the treadmill for a while later.

Frida from ABBA on the iPad makes it more interesting!. 

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I know its all rules down the pan as far as the virus rules for us, but it's still out there and its better to be safe than sorry.

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Wet Wednesday, 18.8.21.

 Today, has it was drizzling we went to The Snipe with a view to buying another camera but the Argos Superstore are not too Super when it comes to updating their on-line catalogue, not that they are the only ones that are guilty of this. I think they are quite happy to get you in store in case you might buy something else instead.

"Not available" said the assistant, "Are there any other stores with them in stock" said I, "No all our stores are out of them" said she, no good blaming her for my wasted journey was it, store management need to update their catalogue more often!.

Perhaps instead of hand sanitiser soon it will be one of these!.

After a bacon buttie at O'Neals Meals wagon it was off to get filled up with petrol, hasn't taken the petrol companies long to up the prices has it, wasn't that long ago they couldn't get riddle of the stuff!.

What are all the Petrol stations going to do when eventually all cars will be Electric?.

Back home as it was still drizzling, watched the Young birds on the feeders though the living room window.

Seems to have been a good year for Goldfinch babies.

These are the second brood I've noticed this year.

They seem to try other food, not like their parents who only seem to eat Sunflower hearts.

This green stuff isn't very nice.

This little guy is looking at the suet block!.

Plenty of Starling babies about too.

Starling and Sparrow babies.

Ah well, back to the jigsaw again, this one a bit tricky with all sorts of colours mixed up, still it will last me a bit longer perhaps.

Perhaps get my staircase rail fitted today?, then it will give me something to do staining it, will need a couple of coats!.

There is going to be a wooden rail on the top of the metal rail to match the other side.

At the side of the staircase is Pepe's rack for this stuff.

Fancy collars and spare lead.

Well that's another day older and hopefully wiser!. 

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Time is a great healer ; but a lousy beautician.

What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?

I don't know and I don't care!. 

The older you get, the better you realise you were.

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