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« Reply #1365 on: 10:55:09, 03-08-2007 » |
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Is it just me or is there unseasonal strangness happening? Blackberries werre ripe a fortnight ago, I saw greengages the other day and there seems to be a glut of pomegranates. I always associate pomegranates with Autumn and the appearance of chestnuts and I can`t remember picking blackberries in July. My purple sage, which should be blooming away happily, has bloomed and now shut up shop . On the other hand, maybe my senility is worse than I thought.  |
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« Reply #1366 on: 11:01:37, 03-08-2007 » |
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« Reply #1367 on: 11:04:45, 03-08-2007 » |
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Ah, Lord Byron of The Enigmatic Response.
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« Reply #1369 on: 11:21:30, 03-08-2007 » |
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It's going to take him a while to calm down, Mort. Yes, it's very odd all this funny weather. Plants haven't the foggiest about what they're meant to be doing. The little plant life I can boast of chez martle (other than in my brain) is doing everything in the wrong order too! And insects? No wasps. No butterflies. No funny gnat outbreaks which you'd normally get/have got by now here by the sea...  |
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« Reply #1370 on: 11:25:45, 03-08-2007 » |
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Queueing for t'Proms t'other day this absolutely massive insect comes down and lands on my knee. I've never seen anything like it. It looked like something out of Evolution. Shaped like a blimp, a few centimetres end to end, all bright yellow, with wings like a bee.  The flying ants are about too  |
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« Reply #1372 on: 11:37:23, 03-08-2007 » |
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If anything, Mort, there're more of the blighters around here than ever! It's the tourist season - absolutely the worst, what with all the junk food and extra food refuse in general. Today is bin day, so of course as per usual I was woken up at about 5.30 by squealing choruses of gulls picking open and throwing around the contents of all the black bags my neighbours can't be arsed to buy a dustbin for. Sorry, I should head to the grump room. |
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« Reply #1373 on: 11:42:24, 03-08-2007 » |
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« Reply #1374 on: 11:44:19, 03-08-2007 » |
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Something like this, Martle ....?  |
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« Reply #1375 on: 11:52:50, 03-08-2007 » |
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Thanks Ian. Are those for the gulls, or my neighbours? Yes, Mort, just like that! There are several varieties of gull, but the worst are these massive, ugly critters, about the size of a Jack Russell:  |
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« Reply #1376 on: 12:07:08, 03-08-2007 » |
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« Reply #1377 on: 12:12:42, 03-08-2007 » |
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Looks like it would eat Ian's guns for breakfast! Beautiful herring gull. There's plenty of them around here but they never bother anyone. I couldn't be nearer the sea without actually being in it and I see them every day. I put food out for the smaller garden birds but the gulls don't usually take much notice. The smaller ones don't actually like to land - they swoop for food but those gorgeous big herring gulls will come down sometimes and have a walk around. I hang washing out too and have never had a problem from the birds, except in the front garden where I've got a wood pigeon's nest and if I park the car too near the tree. I've seen large numbers of them around the rubbish/tip area but they do have to eat you know! |
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« Reply #1378 on: 12:16:21, 03-08-2007 » |
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Cripes! That`s one BIG BIRD! Perhaps one of these might be in order ....?  |
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« Reply #1379 on: 12:23:02, 03-08-2007 » |
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