A quick jab in the arm.

Tony had a letter from the doctors inviting him to go for his flu jab this week. Away he went saying he thought I should have one as well, "whats the point in me having it if you don't" he grumbled under his breath as he walked away from the car. I sat in the car waiting for him knowing he wouldn't be long. The next thing I knew Tony was standing there with my door open looking very pleased with himself. "Come on, you are having a flu jab the nurse say's you should have one as well." Hmm I suppose they were right so I ended up having one after all.

The rest of the day I spent reading, writing on my new chrome book and sleeping. I am still not 100% fit so I am taking it a little bit easy until I am back to normal. Plus it is getting cold, I am going to find my hot water bottle I think I might need it very soon.


I have found a very short clip of two of the squirrels enjoy!

Until the next time...

Newbies in the garden

Poor Mrs Squirrel is being run ragged again, she has introduced three new youngsters into the garden. As usual there is one that is into everything, never in one place for more than a second or two before moving on to the next.

While two of the youngsters run around exploring,

the smallest one stayed on the fence with Mum.

The youngsters all explored the garden during the morning, leaving after a while, then two of them came back alone.  Mum could not have been keen on this idea just yet because it wasn't long before she came and chased them both out of the garden again. (hopefully I will have some film of this to show you soon).


The young squirrels soon found out where the sunflower seeds were.

They also knew the "it wasn't me" pose very well,

These two were happy to share when they tried to get the last of the peanut butter out of the little bush.

This one even knew how to use a tail for an umbrella when it began to rain.

It's good to see new squirrels in the garden, we lost one a couple of weeks ago, it didn't make it across   the road. The only squirrels that had been visiting on a regular basis were Mrs Squirrel and a younger male we named "Grey flanks". So now I am happy to have three more babies, I am not going to name them just yet, I have not really been able to spot any real markings to distinguish which is which. I know one of them is a boy but I have not managed to see what the other two are yet.



The weather for the last couple of days has not been very good.
Today it rained most of the day, I didn't really mind I wasn't going anywhere, I was in bed feeling sorry for myself, feeling a bit under the weather (ha ha, no pun intended).

The sun did eventually manage to break through even if the rain was still pouring down, so I was able to take a picture of a rainbow in the sky outside the bedroom window.

At least that put a bit of colour into a grey day.


Until the next time...

She is just a greedy squirrel

We have often spotted strange or comical signs while out and about in the car. We saw one a few days ago that made us both laugh out loud, it was on a gate leading into a farm yard,

The sign looked like it had been there a long time, I wonder if it worked?



Mrs Squirrel has been calling,


She climbs onto the fence comes to the shed window to look at me.

Then she sits on the fence shelf to watch me a while longer,

Then she gives me a sideways glance before,

Diving across to the bird table to the hazel nuts,

Where she landed just in the right place,

 To suck up as many nuts as she could in one go

Before returning to the fence to sit and eat them as quickly as she could

Which just resulted in Mrs Squirrel getting hiccups.

She is after all a very greedy squirrel.



The hedges around the garden are still attracting the sparrows,

There is usually a lot of noise before I see them, it's as if they are sending out a couple of birds to make sure it is safe before they all come out and they are arguing about who's turn it is.


As I packed up my camera to go back indoors who should I see?


Mrs Squirrel looking at me from the nutbox. The boxes were both full and there was 2 feeders full of sunflower seeds that she can find, so there is plenty to eat even for a greedy squirrel.

Until the next time...

A recovering cat, new squirrels and who is that strange person?

Pepper Lynsey's cat finally got his wound stitched

No-one is sure how he got the wound, the vet said it did not look like a fighting injury so we will probably never know.

So for now Lynsey is scratching the places Pepper cannot reach, within reason, she was scratching his head today but stopped very quickly.
Pepper had a lump on his head which seemed to be getting smaller. However as Lynsey was scratching his head the top came off and it burst. I am sure you can imagine the rest, Lynsey was not impressed.

Lynsey sent this picture saying "she cleaned it out with a cotton bud and this is what his head looks like now".
Poor Pepper seem's to have more wounds and abscesses than his fair share. Lynsey was told he would calm down and stop fighting after he was neutered but it just doesn't seem to have happened.



Well on a lighter note the garden has been busy, lots of birdlife and squirrels.

Young Robin stood out in the rain watching me fill the feeders I am not sure who was the daftest!

One of the young Sparrows flew onto the bird bath to have a drink of water. This was before I had filled it so the water was very low. The sides of the bath can be very slippy as the young Sparrow found out.

He came for a look

He lent farther over,

into the water he slipped

just at the last moment managing to fly out.

It didn't put the sparrow off too much as soon as the bird bath was filled he came back for a drink.



The Squirrels are rushing about burying nuts, stopping to eat a few, and the sunflower seeds are going down a treat with Mrs Squirrel again.

I think we have a couple of new Squirrels in the garden again, I have not managed to take a picture of one of them but this is the other one.

He is a very timid male easily scared off by any other squirrel, or large bird that comes into the garden. Any loud noises like Margaret throwing her rubbish into the bin or the magpies call.

He does however wait for the food to be put out, runs down grabs a couple of nuts then disappears up the sycamore tree.





Now for something completely different, make the most of it you may never see it again!

This is me with my youngest grandchild, Logan.

Until the next time...

There goes another one...

Life has been busy just lately with visiting, appointments and unexpected happenings.

We have had a war with giant spiders, the first sighting was in the bathroom. Then we spotted one in the bedroom, then another, then one night while Tony was reading one ran across the bed. I was begining to get paranoid, I saw spiders everywhere. Every time a shadow moved I thought it was a spider.  It was time to do something about these spiders.

Tony purchased a spider deterrent, it is plugged in the bedroom socket. This is supposed to work through the electric cables to scare the spiders away. I have to admit since we have had it I have not seen a spider in the flat.

There is one making a home in the garden near Margaret's water tap.
(Spider on a hose pipe)

 This is only a baby compared to the one's we had inside and a lot prettier.


The young Robins are nearly fully coloured

The Goldfinches are calling into the garden again.

The Wren is singing while flitting around hunting bugs.

Mrs Squirrel is gnawing her bone again so that means more baby squirrels soon.

Today we went to the Redbrick Warehouse. There we bought the newest addition to our corner.

Meet "Liquorice" the cat that takes no looking after, does not need feeding, and is most certainly house trained.

Liquorice will live in the corner of the living room looking at home along with the wolf and Betty Boop.

Lynsey's cat Pepper has been in the wars again, he came home with a gaping wound in his side but how he has done it seems a mystery.

Lynsey had to starve him from last night to take him to the vets today so the vet could have a good look and stitch him up. When she got there she was told it was too late to do it today she would have to go back at 8 am in the morning.
I imagine Lynsey was not happy because they had made the appointment for that time, they knew what it was for so surely they must have known that there would not be enough time.
So poor Pepper has gone all day today with no food or water and he is going to be starved again from 9pm tonight and no water either. I hope they see to him tomorrow or I would not like to see what Lynsey's reaction may be.


Until the next time...

  

Who threw that?

The crazy world of the "Ice water bucket challenge"  reached the crazy world of Lynsey last week.

Enjoy,

I think she did it with style. ( but the writing on her onesie said it all as well).

Until the next time...

What will be will be.

The last few days in the garden have been quiet, there has been the usual visitors,



A young Starling

A couple of Sparrows

and


A young Great Spotted Woodpecker

My time yesterday and today has been taken up sorting out my computer. I upgraded to a new programme,  what should have been an easy job turned into a major overhaul. I am pleased to say I have now finished. The only thing I am not pleased about is that to put my iPhotos back on I will have to pay for a new version that is going to cost me about £10.99
Oh well never mind if I want it I will have to pay for it you don't get anything for nothing do you?

I came across a quote today while looking on Google+ it made me smile because it summed up how I felt about parts of my life,

So I suppose it's a case of  "que sera sera".

Until the next time...