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...