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Just heard Woodpeckers in the woods I’m working in😁
The sun ☀️ is out I’m waking my dog.
Or was it a daily mail reader building a bunker to fill full of beans and bog roll to sit this out in?
Sun's out!☀️
Guns out/buns out*
*delete as applicable
Clocks change soon 🙂
My local trails are drying out at last 🙂
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I ain’t deleting’ nuffin’
Yup guns out,working in a T shirt, forgot to mention,It is a sewage treatment works, a tad ripe, and plenty of poo flies😁
I went for a run this morning and saw a sparrowhawk hunting along the hedge line.
All my daffs and camellia are in full bloom in the garden so it is looking very colourful.
I was speaking to botanist recently about the role that plants have on drying up the trails.
Apparently the flora sucks water up from the soil, which travels through the roots, into the main body of the plant, and then evaporates out of the leaves.....
or so it transpires.
sparkyrhino
Yup guns out,working in a T shirt, forgot to mention,It is a sewage treatment works, a tad ripe, and plenty of poo flies😁
Have you noticed an increase in bog roll usage?
For the first time in 25 years, I have no flights , ferries or tunnels booked.
Kinda good timing
Coffee is better at home than in the office.
Have you noticed an increase in bog roll usage?
Thee will likely be an increase in sewer blockages and subsequent flooding due to more wet wipes being flushed down the loo.
I’m waking my dog
Let sleeping dogs lie.
[Anono.or so it transpires]this made me laugh out loud...
Let sleeping dogs lie.
😀
He’s asleep again now pretty much all he does as he’s 12 on Friday.
Hopefully out on the motorbike this afternoon, stopping off in Skipton for a coffee and a cake of some description from the Craven Bakery.
The blue tits have moved back into our nest box.
Cycled down the wrong way of a dual carriageway today on my commute - Less than 1/3rd of the cars on the road. Can hear birds singing again.
Hopefully out on the motorbike this afternoon, stopping off in Skipton for a coffee and a cake of some description from the Craven Bakery.
<Waves from behind barricade>
Actually, might head out for a spin in a minute, sun is oot!
Lasagne for lunch.
The rain stopped for half an hour and the blackbirds started singing.
Sun, sun, sun.
The cherry trees lining the street are in blossom, and WFH means I can take my two little girls for a play on their bikes. The eldest, 4 and a half, is doing really well now on her pedal bike and her face is one big grin. Awesome.
I follow this account on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WSheepdog
"I am Inca The Worlds Smallest Sheepdog I works for @Zwartblesie
I hold a shared apprenticeship with Ovenmitt under @1CatShepherd on Black Sheep Farm in Ireland."
It's a tiny dog that works as a sheepdog, lives with various other dogs, cats, goats and obviously sheep.
She's recently had puppies and they're just starting to get out and explore the world, a whole thread of them here: https://twitter.com/WSheepdog/status/1239256272416976905
Just been for a walk in the sun. Really nice to be outside, spring is in the air. Few people about, anyone we encountered we gave some space. It's definitely a bit quieter around here, edge of south Manchester.
So this isn't a thread for people who have tested positive then?
W@h, getting to see kids a load more and been working away lately.
Went for a run at lunchtime, first time it's felt like spring and I wish I'd worn shorts. Also heard a woodpecker in the forest.
Walked to the park with the kids, who swung on a swing, caught a couple of pokemon and ran through a muddy puddle. Great fun.
We have a week of leave next week. Aside from the fact that my holiday was cancelled (I'm over that now), I now have a week off where I'm not really allowed out into the world. This is fantastic because instead of doing sociable things I have carte blanche to spend much of the time riding my bike.
There is warmth in that yellow blob in the sky, and it isn't blowing it's tits off and it hasn't rained for two days.
WFH has always been brilliant, I'm glad others are seeing positive mental health and vitality benefits from it.
🥰
It's been dry here for over 36 hours! I dont think I can recall that happening in weeks. The perm-a-puddle on our access road is already reducing in size.
There has been sunshine and a lot of birds in the garden.
Hopefully a ride later after work.
There shouldnt, be an increase in loo roll usage,I have implemented a three sheet limit(your going to wash your hands anyway)
Bluebells will be out soon, and have you seen the pictures from Venice? The water in the canals is clear!
I actually tidied up my tools.
My boss is going to be working from home as much as possible. As he never does anything useful this will make no difference to my workload, and I won't have to listen to him.
Saw swans nesting at the marina near the office on my ride home
It's forcing me to branch out from my usual repertoire of evening meals. Like "Oh there's no pasta, I'll see what I can make with chestnuts and jarred whelks". Tonight's fajitas will be fillet steak.
The shops still have a mega selection of stuff. If you focus on what's there rather than what's not there are endless possibilities.
Here's a week of positives chez Scape...
Thursday 12th Night walk with the dogs up at Wholestone Moor. Picked up a pair of eyes in the lamp and decided it wasn't a fox, eyes were too blue. Stalked in with the lamp off to within 50 yards and lit up a roe buck, still in velvet. He'd been grazing in a corner of two walls and simply leapt the wall and disappeared as I lit him up.
Friday 13th Heard the first Curlews up at Cupwith. Always a sure sign of spring.
Saturday 14th Son home from Uni for the weekend. Out for three hours with the dogs at Scammonden, and discovered no one uses the permissive paths through the pastures/rashes . My lab flushed a roe doe out of some dense cover in some woodland, and another got up from some bramble thickets in front of us.
Sunday 15th Scammonden Shorter walk, again through the rashes/pastures starting from the picnic area. An abundance of snipe, woodcock and a couple of cock pheasants. Have to keep the dogs out of the gutters and gullies now the ducks are nesting.
Monday 16th. Back up at Cupwith, and saw the first Skylark of the year. Must have been a couple of hundred feet up just off the path. Met a young couple with a lovely little Patterdale pup and the bloke told me he'd never been up on the moors before, so was enthralled by the Skylark.
Tuesday 17th Really blustery up at Cupwith, but the same Skylark was holding his own against the westerly and still singing his heart out. All the drains and dewponds full of frogspawn. More Curlews and the grouse were chuckling away in the heather.
This morning my garden is absolutely full of finches. I counted seven goldfinches in one tree, and a horde of chaffinches. I've got two pairs of blackbirds nesting, one at the side of the house and one all the way down the bottom of the garden. There are also two pairs of bluetits hard at it. The dummy alarm box on the back wall has been used as a nest for the last twenty years, and a new pair started nesting in a cavity in the stonework last year and are back this year.
SO, in all of this gloom and despondency there are plenty of positives going on.
My cars immaculate 👍🥳
Run this morning was dry and fairly warm.. 🤹♂️
That the young are trying to protect the old in this war when in every other one the old have sent the young to die for them.
This made me laugh. There's always time to have a dig at your brother, even during a global crisis. 🙂
https://twitter.com/jackremmington/status/1239844473376518144
I might actually be able to paint my shop at a leisurely pace rather than rushing it over night.