What have you been doing today?

[conny]

Spent a family day out with all the grandkids at Paradise Wildlife Park in Hertfordshire.
Split in to two sections. Wildlife in one and animatronic dinosaurs in the other. Kids loved it and want to go back next time they are off school.
Came home knackered so had a coffee then a dip in the hot tub for an hour. Just finished off a loaded bacon butty with brown sauce and washed down with a bottle of Lancaster Bomber.

 

[transam]

Pulling various parts off of a wrecked Ford Sierra angle grinder came in handy

 

[sxturbo]

Spent a family day out with all the grandkids at Paradise Wildlife Park in Hertfordshire.
Split in to two sections. Wildlife in one and animatronic dinosaurs in the other. Kids loved it and want to go back next time they are off school.
Came home knackered so had a coffee then a dip in the hot tub for an hour. Just finished off a loaded bacon butty with brown sauce and washed down with a bottle of Lancaster Bomber.

Took my boy there about a month ago, really liked it there, great place for children, just enough to keep them interested without getting bored, and not to much can't get see it all.

 

[sxturbo]

Pulling various parts off of a wrecked Ford Sierra angle grinder came in handy

I pulled the gear box off my Almera last weekend due to engine mount failing and bolts sheering in the gear box, ends of the bolts were rotted in and had to drill them out at work i refitted it today.

Unfortunately the sump is badly corroded and while it been sat around this week it's now started leaking, so still can't drive it, will now be another week off the road.

 

[transam]

Any one going to the festival of speed ??

 

[securespark]

Silverstone?

 

[securespark]

Wander round the kitchen garden and lunch at Quarry Bank Mill.

Bit of tidying up the the garden.

Chinese takeaway in the garden.

Then reacquainting two of my boys with the old skill of firelighting using a flint and steel.

This is our Jubilee Beacon!

 

[Mottie]

Walk out this morning with the dawgs family. Met a Shetland Pony and went nose to nose with mine.

Some of the other dogs had a dip in one of the horse troughs.

Over the allotment later, pulled up a bunch of mixed radish's and found an intruder!

Washed them off and dug up some Charlotte spuds that we will be having tomorrow with some chopped mint, salt and black pepper, coated in butter.

My first 'harvest' of the year!

 

[Dork Lard]

My no'1 sons kids are 1/3rd frog & D-i-L is adamant that they are raised bi-lingual, which I think is a good thing all round as they spend a lot of time over the water. Today they were 'dumped' on us to babysit with the very cheeky challenge to only speaky de francaise to gran pere & gran mere Lard.

I can play games & I love to play games, especially with my beloved D-i-L, so we're sending them back tomorrow with a new word in their french vocabulary "creme glacee", which should be enuff to strike the fear of God into D-i-L & as I write this mon petite fillie is snoring her 4yr old head off while still dressed as Elsa & no doubt dreaming of all the creme glacee yet to come in her life.

Lovely jubbly, I love it when a plan comes together.

 

[Mottie]

Usual dog walk this morning but my dog decided to put on some camouflage.

I think it must have worked because she came running back to me ten minutes later being followed by the other dogs and some rather angry and noisy birds and dropped this at my feet - it didn’t half have a bite on it!

She hadn’t harmed it so I placed it as high as I could in a tree and when I left it was calling out for its parents. it should be okay.

After that, they all enjoyed a swim.

 

[Odds]

That bird looks properly annoyed - is it a young crow?
The sparrows have fledged in the past few days and i've enjoyed their banter along the fence. One of 'em wandered around the back yard for a bit til it figured out how to fly over the low wall into the rockery.
At the moment i'm keeping an eye on the wood pigeons as they're keeping a thieving eye on my budding cherries.

 

[Mottie]

That bird looks properly annoyed - is it a young crow?
The sparrows have fledged in the past few days and i've enjoyed their banter along the fence.

I’m pretty sure it’s a Raven because of the grey bonnet. I’ve got a few weeks before my blue tits fledge and I’m getting worried for them already!

 

[Odds]

I’m pretty sure it’s a Raven because of the grey bonnet. I’ve got a few weeks before my blue tits fledge and I’m getting worried for them already!

A Jackdaw has a similar crown of grey, so it's hard to tell at that age.
How many of your Blue Tits do you think will make it out of the box or even survive summer? It's a tough old world out there.
Last couple of years Blackbird has nested in a bush right outside the living room, giving us a daily window into their world. They used a series of jumps from various angles and disguised their movements to avoid attracting attention from magpies that eat eggs but only one out of four made it out of the nest.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Walk out this morning with the dawgs family. Met a Shetland Pony and went nose to nose with mine.

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Some of the other dogs had a dip in one of the horse troughs.

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Over the allotment later, pulled up a bunch of mixed radish's and found an intruder!

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Washed them off and dug up some Charlotte spuds that we will be having tomorrow with some chopped mint, salt and black pepper, coated in butter.

My first 'harvest' of the year!

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Is it generally true that stuff you grow at home / allotment tastes better than shop bought, or is that a bit of an old wives tale?

 

[Mottie]

A Jackdaw has a similar crown of grey, so it's hard to tell at that age.
How many of your Blue Tits do you think will make it out of the box or even survive summer? It's a tough old world out there.

Yeah, sorry, I meant Jackdaw - getting my corvids mixed up! Seven have hatched from eight eggs and if I what I read is true, I’ll be well happy if four of them make it out and survive summer.