What have you been doing today?

Removing a load of shrubbery stumps and turning the area into a bit of a rock garden. Need to buy some alpine plants to plant between the rocks and add a bit of colour.
Mowing the 4 metre strip we look after belonging to the meadow next door. Now sitting down with a beer.
 
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Visited the lady a few doors from us aged 90+ but fighting fit. We did not go in just to say hi from outside her front door. She always invites us in but with Covid taking off again we did not want to put her at any unnecessary risk. This lady wlaks to the shops several times a week with her shopping trolley, very mobile especially taking her age into account. She has the odd sherry several times a week, her don visits at least once a week and us, and next door keeps an eye on her.

Changed the bedding to the guest rooms as we do every approx 6 weeks or so

Just had lunch, yummy.

Watching 5th Gear.

May go out for a walk as the sun has appeared and almost dry after light drizzel.

:) :)
 
Got rid of some hardwood French doors that were too good to skip. Got a friend to list them on a gifting site for me so better than them going to landfill. Took a Sunday roast round to my mum. Watching football at the moment.
 
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Lookig out of the massive folding doors a tree in our neighbour's garden next to our fence about 120/150 feet down the garden I have noted a par of crows making an est up their for a couple of days and just was watching again. Incredible a Magpie made its way up the nest as the pair of crows had just flown away and I thought there must be eggs in there or babies but the magpie stole a twig from the nest, lol what a risk-taker these Magpie was.

We were going to go out but my OH is busy on the phone speaking to a sibling in Canada and they are worse than me and carry on for least an hour, lol. LOL

And thanks to the Mods regarding my alert.
 
I was born, bred & live in a dog &/or welly walk paradise & often frequent the only liquid refreshment hostelry within miles after thoroughly exercising my dogs & totally exhausting the grandkids.

So, during this afternoons session, I'm sat enjoying my pint, keeping one eye on the grandkids & t'other on the dogs, when an old man, his missus & his dog sat down for their own brief period of liquid refreshment.

I think I thought I knew him the very first minute I saw him womble off the canal path & make his way over t'pub. After a brief period of discovery, we both finally realised we were the bestest of mates at infants school & his family moved a few miles away when we were both 7.
 
The Humanitarian said:
Lookig out of the massive folding doors a tree in our neighbour's garden next to our fence about 120/150 feet down the garden I have noted a par of crows making an est up their for a couple of days and just was watching again. Incredible a Magpie made its way up the nest as the pair of crows had just flown away and I thought there must be eggs in there or babies but the magpie stole a twig from the nest, lol what a risk-taker these Magpie was.
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I saw that happen a few years ago - a bunch of magpies completely disassembled a crows nest in a tree until there wasn't even a twig left.
 
Decided to have a break from Diy and do something more enjoyable:)
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The Humanitarian said:
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Magpies? Yes. If you mean shooting them, well maybe people think that way, but they are vermin, along with crows and parakeets, and need controlling, as do grey squirrels and rats. Funny how people see a squirrel as all cuddly wuddly , but shriek if they see a rat. Ever seen a drowned squirrel? You'd be hard pressed to tell it from a rat.
 
Yeah, all Corvids are nasty bastards. They use Larsen traps with a hens egg in them for the Magpies and dispatch them when trapped over the shoot I go to as they kill and eat the young birds.
 
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Ihavenojob said:
Magpies? Yes. If you mean shooting them, well maybe people think that way, but they are vermin, along with crows and parakeets, and need controlling, as do grey squirrels and rats. Funny how people see a squirrel as all cuddly wuddly , but shriek if they see a rat. Ever seen a drowned squirrel? You'd be hard-pressed to tell it from a rat.
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Re squirrels, I agree and they are running all over our garden and without the tails I agree they look like "rats." and can be vicious.

The magpies in our garden, we get two pairs and come near the patio and rarely off the grass and IMO they keep the vermin pigeons away. Re the Crows I've never seen them nor Magpies as "vermin" and again the crows keep the pigeons and seagulls at bay as the seagull are coming inland.


What you said made me think and looked up the net and you need a licence to kill magpies/crows.

As I lay on on one of our 4 seat sofas I often look out of the massive windows we have no net cutains anyhting as gardens are very long and even visitors say its hard to believe we live in London

you must live in the countryside from what you said re air rifle etc

Btw - i have several and one was short barrel not sure why i bought them years ag and more recent addition was those gas filled ones when my OH felts things would go belly up at the start of covid and you'd get looting and worse.. Thankfully it never came to that. lol, we'd also planned to leave London at the hieght of covid but felt it was safer here if we stayed in
 
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