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Oh Maryanna you are just trying to make me jealous......and have succeeded :-P
I lived just a few minutes walk from the beach when I was young and it was the place we all headed after school .Mums would pack up picnics and off we went.Oh what wonderful times.Now I am as far away from the sea as you could get :-S :-S

Yes I wonder if the Crows were after something the Rabbit had.I would have thought though that the rabbit would have scarpered .Could it have been unwell I wonder?

I hope your son has a brilliant time .It sounds very exciting :-D
My address book for my daughter is full of crossed out addresses.She is gong to have to move again at the end of the year as the Landlord is wanting to sell the house.This will be her 6th move in 3 years :-( :-(.
London tomorrow for me.Hannah says that there is no way I would cope with the heat on the underground ,or even the buses .So I have said we will take taxis EVERYWHERE :-D

Just watching a Gt Tit,a Sparrow and a Finch all standing in the tray of the window feeder lol it is looking pretty empty and I think they are trying to find all the last little bits of the suet pellets.I see the seeds are left.Fussy little devils :-)

Oh yes,the crows could be seeing the rabbit as carrion if they sensed it was not well.

Oh dear, poor bunny, I hadn't though of that.

Have a lovely day in London Jane, at least you will be travelling in style !!

I have to say it is lovely having the beach a five minute walk away, at least we are getting used to the heat before we go to Spain. For once we won't be the only white bodies in the beach when we first arrive.

M.

When do you go Maryanna?

Not for a couple of weeks Ann. Youngest son now thinks he might come with us in the car, we are taking a week to drive down through France going to places we used to go to when the kids were small as well as Paris, rather than fly out with all the rest of the family. He says it will be like the old days. He is probably right, he will fall asleep at Calais and wake up in Barcelona.

I am now wondering how we are going to fit three if us and all our stuff in our little car as we are taking stuff for everyone else as well. Towels, sports equipment, buggy etc as they are all flying Cheap Air and don't want to pay baggage !!! They will all meet us there on the day we arrive, he will get a weeks extra holiday for nothing. He might have to sleep on our hotel floor on the way down though.

I think it is more likely that he kept forgetting it book his flight and it is now double what the others paid. It will be lovely to have him with us though. We don't get to see much if him now as he has lived in London for three years. It was easy when he was at Uni at Exeter, although he did get a job in Spain for two years after he left, we didn't see a lot of him then.

Off to bed now, the house is so hot and Himself seems to have developed a cough, should be a fun night.

M.

Sounds like the car will be packed to the rafters Maryanna !!!!.I hope you have good air/con :-D what with 3 bodies and all the paraphernalia .
I got back last night after having a lovely time in London with my daughter.Lovely pre show dinner up the OXO tower on the South Bank and then a show which was such fun.It was in a tent (circus type) .Amazing acts by the 5 or 6 performers.
There have been lots of Swifts around here today and all sitting on our TV Aerials.Must be lots of insects here for them to eat :-D.I love their chatter.The bird bath has been busy with various little birds cooling off.I wish I could fit in it !!.That would be a sight for sore eyes :-S

Jane I too was in London this weekend with friends...we saw The Bodyguard, fantastic show.

I doubt you have swifts perching on your aerial...more than likely they are swallows.

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What are their tails like Jane? I don't think Swifts 'perch'.

Yes I think they must be Swallows :-DI have looked up the difference between both birds and still get it wrong :-S.Hopeless aren't I LOL

Swifts eat and sleep 'on the wing'. Swifts have 'thinner' wings and are sort of dark brown with a beigy white throat.. Swallows are blue/black and have a white front and, apparently have red on the top of their throats too. The older male birds have long tails

Swallows/Swifts......just be glad you have some birds there. Ours have apparently all left home. All the food I put out just sits there untouched :-(

strange how, this time of year the birds do a runner Vera, all except for sparrows and starlings we don't see many either. Although OH did see two long tailed tits this morning - I, of course, missed them. As they are cutting hay etc I wonder if the birds take to gleaning the fields. :-)

I think they are all here eating me out of house and home again !!!!!!!!!.The window feeder this afternoon has been crazy yet again .I have had the Finches,Blue Tits,a Bull Finch,Mr Blackbird,lots of Gt Tits and one of my dear Robins who looks so tatty now I have named him Worzel Gummidge :-DHe does look a sorry state :-(
and just now the Green Woodpecker was about :-D

Isn't life odd? Haven't seen birds in the garden for days but within minutes of my last post OH called out "The starlings are back" and they were - in force :-D

I'm hoping the sparrows and blackbirds will follow suit though I doubt if we'll get anything more than that for a while. You've got a great selection Jane. I used to love the green woodpecker that used to come to our old home. They are such colourful birds and ours used to come quite close to the house in the search for insects.

We have had a young robin around although not seen it today.

Jane your oh's latest painting is on the craft blog. :-)

Thanks Ann for your comment and also Yvonne.Ann please would be able to reply to her for me on the blog and say thank you.I too think he is very talented,and both me and my Daughter have suggested that he might think about selling some at some point.But at the moment I don't think he feels he is good enough.Silly Billy :-)

Thanks Ann.I really must work out how to do this google account thing so that I can add comments myself on the Blog .
I just showed OH the lovely comments :-D :-D.He has really only just started this painting hobby again after about 25 years.He did some when the children were very young but then work got in the way and he just didn't have time.Now he has all the time in the world :-D

Kandj says Hello to all who know her,and also says that in time she hopes to be back on the thread :-D.It will be great to have her back <3

I must go and fill up the feeder.I think all the suet pellets have gone and it seems like all the seeds are just being flung out over the sides :-S

Their way of telling you they don't want seed they want fat balls Jane :-D

It would be lovely to see Kandj back on here <3

Hello everyone :-)

l'm sending a photo to you AnnG of a bee or wasp, never seen this before, can't find it on the web......:))

jude xx