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Jane, I think that is what rankles the most, it's the wastage.

We have what was left over the last time in the garage, it would probably carpet a modest sized room if you chopped it up and stuck it back together again like a jigsaw.

M.

I think we paid between £800/900 for our bedroom carpet.I have a feeling that was about £27 per metre .That nearly floored me lol.Trouble is when the room is an odd shape and you have to buy more than needed and then get left with some :-S
We seem to have a number of Goldfinch(not fish :-D) around at the moment.Their sound is quite distinctive .I saw one today drinking from the birdbath,and have never seen that before.
Thomas (cat) seems to be on bird patrol all the time now and has found himself a couple of hiding places to keep watch :-S.But I am keeping fingers that the little bell on his collar gives enough warning :-D

Ann, I am so glad I paid all that money for my new glasses.

You actually wrote Goldfinch not Goldfish !!!!

I think we are going to give up the idea of replacing the wool carpet like for like and getting man made instead. £20 per square meter as opposed to £40 ( plus underlay )

M. :-0

Good heavens Maryanns, that is a lot for a carpet. However, if you go too cheap with where it is it may not be cost effective as it is an area that gets a lot of wear. Have you looked at corded carpet?

Where did you see goldfish? I didn't write that did I? Were your eyes playing tricks?

Still windy here, not much sun and not a lot of warmth.

Sorry Ann, I read that three times wondering how a Goldfish was on your feeders !!!

Windy still here and by no means even warm but the sun does seem to be trying. Just not hard enough.

A man just came to measure up for our hall stairs and landing, we aren't after carpet that costs too much but the hall and landing are both very big, room size and it seems we are looking at £2,500. :-S. Better go back and find something a bit cheaper.

M.

We haven't had any rain but it was bitterly cold in the wind yesterday evening. This morning it is very cloudy with a cold wind and occasional bursts of sunshine. On the feeders this morning we had two small juveniles. A tiny goldfinch and a chubby robin, both exploring the feeders to see what suited best. :-) :-)

The river was lovely yesterday Ann but not so much fun when they were nearly flooded out when it got so high the Winter before last. The floods were very close but didn't get to them.

They have had to build a flood defence to try and keep it back if it happens again. They have been there a few years and never had it so close before, you never know these days, do you ?

As it turned out we got more flooded than them with the water pouring off the fields behind us. We have never in 30 years had it that bad.

Horrible here now,it got really cold this afternoon and came over very black but we only had a little bit of rain. I have been sitting under a blanket to try and keep warm.. ( No way the heating will go back on now- it's JUNE !!!!! )

Whatever happened to yesterdays' lovely sunshine ?

M.

:-(

:-D can't win Jane.

Maryanna, sounds wondeful to be able to sit by the river in your own garden. I envy your sister. Glad you enjoyed your meal,ma birthday to remember. Can just about remember my 60th

I always find it quite eery when all the birds go silent Maryann.You just know something is about :-S
Well you certainly won't forget this years celebrations.Yet another lovely meal /party.It sounded wonderful .You will be wanting to be 60 all over again next year lol

My birds are still at the feeder (surprisingly with the cat around spying on them)One good thing for me is that the bird food is lasting longer now :-D So instead of topping it up 3 times a day it seems to be just 2 now.I will save on bird food BUT now spend it on Cat Food :-S

I think the Sparrowhawk got something a bit bigger than a Sparrow earlier.The Jackdaws and Magpies were having one of their usual battles, then it all went quiet and I could hear a Jackdaw squawking that went on over into the field at the back.They have all stopped scrapping for a while

My birthday celebrations seem to have finally come to an end.We went to my sister's yesterday for lunch. She had invited all the family as well as some old friends.We had an amazing meal and lots of fizz, then she produced a cake that looked more like something you might wear on your head to Ascot than eat.

It was such a beautiful hot day, luckily she has a big garden and lots of lovely wicker garden furniture so we could all either sit in the sun or under the huge parasoles she has on the patio or at the end of the garden by the river.. I even got some more lovely presents. That is it,all over now. :-D :-(

M.

Bob, oh that was sad. Let's hope Mum had got baby to a point where it could feed itself. Actually Dad blackbirds often take over the feeding of the young.

Kandj no collard doves around at all and there were a ginormous amount of feathers that I cleared up yesterday.

Well, back out into the garden, more plants to put in.

Good morning everyone

Awake early as our family are coming here for the day..... all exciting stuff ha ha.

Maryanne, your balloons are lovely to see. No getting away from your age now then
I bet your friend looked like Mary Poppins with all your other balloons too.

Ann, I hope your dove escaped unharmed apart from the feathers!

Jane...... ooh Thomas isn't quite the lovely pusscat that you thought then. Good idea to have a bell around his neck and I hope that the birds get out of his way fast.

Bob, that is a sad sight to see. I hope the blackbird has Dad near at hand.

It is a bright sunny day and forecast to be warm today so Summer is here tra la la.
Just filled up the feeders and washed the bird baths.... plenty activity here already.

I hope everyone enjoys their Sunday whatever you have planned.

Oh Bob :-(....I am assuming Mum was 'gone'..Hopefully the little one was big enough to survive on it's own even if Dad wasn't around.

saw something sad this morning, going down a slip road to the old A1,

was a young blackbird on the verge looking at what I believe was mum, in the road

hopefully dad wasn't far away.........

Bob

I found a lot of feathers in the garden this morning, mainly white with some quite large feathers as well as small fluffy ones. No body though. I wonder if there is anaked collard dove around somewhere.

Now they are 2 MASSIVE balloons lol.Not sure I have seen any quite as big.They can hover for weeks and weeks.Did anyone get a pic of your friend Maryanna holding all those balloons???.The helium ones are better than the blow up ones as they don't go BANG..I hate that.

Your cardigan was a good buy Ann.Some Garden Centres sell some quite nice clothing.
No hot weather here either.There is quite a chilly wind.But at least the washing will be dry in a very short time :-D.No rain.

Thomas is now wearing a collar and bell Ann.We will see if the birds hear the bell !!!IIt is nice having an animal in the house again,even though it wasn't planned :-D :-D
The sun is coming out :-D :-D

Oh good I thought I had said happy birthday at some stage, then saw the balloons. It is not difficult to confuse me you know :-D :-D :-D :-D

Just been out to one of the Blue Diamond garden centres we don't go to often. But we called in for coffee to a small one next door, and there we bought another Buddleia to replace a hydrangea that has died. We paid £6.99 for a really good quite big specimen, next door in the large garden centre they were £8.99. But, in the large garden centre I bought a pretty salmon coloured cotton cardigan (no button style reduced from £19.99 to £12.99 so..... swings and roundabouts.

I am wondering where the hot weather we were promised for today has gone. It certainly didn't come here, we have heavy cloud, showers, patchy sun and a very cold strong wind. :-S :-( :-(

No Ann, the big celebrations were a month ago.

Those huge balloons plus two more that said 4 and 0 have been bouncing about ever since. We also had some small pink white and red ones for about a week as well.

First of all they were behind my chair, that just rubbed it in and frightened me to death every time I walked in the room. They also moved and I could see them out the corner of my eye.

So I then moved them into the conservatory never expecting them to stay up so long.

I kept getting glimpses of them from the living room, kitchen and garden, I could even see them through the roof if I looked out of our bedroom, the little round one was at head height, I kept thinking someone was there.

Then they would creak in the breeze ..........

Our daughter paid a fortune for them so I didn't want to get rid of them too quickly, but enough is enough.

The funniest thing was seeing my friend, well she did volunteer, bring them back from the pub where we had the party, in her Fiat 500, I have some lovely photos of her trying to stuff them all in her car. She is very tiny and when she brought them round later that evening, standing on the doorstep holding about twenty helium balloons, she looked like something out of " Up " I thought she was going to take off !!!

M. :-)

Just nature Jane.

Oh dear,we have had the first bird kill :-( :-(.I tried to rescue it but too late.I have a feeling he had been to a nest for it.Not sure what bird though :-S