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14th February 2010.
Temp: 2°C
Yes - it's St Valentines Day. Just when all the other lovey-dovey couples were off lovey-doveying, Ron, Maudie and your humble author went down the walk.
Notice - Ron, Maudie and me. Matt had claimed a previous engagement but won't tell us where, why and more importantly who with. We should be told. The options are...
A: On a Valentine's day dinner date
B: Watching the rugby in Rome
C: With family & friends in Frisby
D: Secretly down the walk making owl noises.
Trudie claimed a poorly tummy, we do of course believe her and hope she gets well soon. The rumour (spread by Ron or Maudie or me) of too much champagne and oysters for breakfast is "probably" false? I think we should be told.
Before...
Being only 3 today, we limited ourselves to this little bit (after the stumps).
Your humble author set-to and chopped down THREE, yes THREE of those horrid Hawthorns. Ron and Maudie worked like loons and in 3 hours we managed to clear and burn them!
Come back quick you 3 - you know we miss you.
The plan for the next few sessions is to clear a swathe about 6 feet wide on the left and right side of the picture above, right down to the really boggy bit about half-way down the pic. Well... it's a plan!
Owl vs Chicken.
Maudie and Ron stood stock still for a minute and went "Sssh - can you hear the Owl?".
Your Humble author is the worst in the world at naming plants, fungi, birds, animals, indeed anything living including humans. Give him a plane overhead and he can tell you the pilots name or the sound of a finely tuned 2001 Corsa in instant recognition, a bird - NO.
HOWEVER, even I know the difference between an Owl, and despite never having lived on a farm, a chicken.
RESULT! I may have rubbed it in a bit too much though when they totally excluded me from the "is it blue-tits or great-tits that go 'teacher teacher teacher'?" and made me feel very sad when I only knew it was one or the other, maybe.
By the way it is Great tit.
PS: Just before we left we did hear a real Owl down at the "far-end" of the walk.
How much do we take down the walk?
In the car park we agreed we didn't need to take too much down as there were only the 3 of us.
I swear I will get this blogged and have a new competition - "What is missing from the above picture?"
The answer (apart from us) is a rake, a pitchfork and 2 saws.
After...
Oh come on! Don't tell me you can't see how much we have cleared!
And the signature final shot of the day...
Continuing the theme, see the links to 13th Dec 2009., 17th Jan 2010 and 31st Jan 2010
P.S. (well 2 actually)
P.S. Number 1: We have lots and lots of a fungi at the walk that we haven't spotted before this year - Velvet Shank. We will be getting some pics this week I hope.
P.S. Number 2: You may have noticed the quality of the pics are getting worser and worserer. This is because our Praktica DCZ 4.4, all purpose, knock-about, travelled everywhere compact is on its' last legs. Ron recently got a Samsung compact that we are evalualting, and if it shows its original promise, your humble author might invest in one (don't tell Maudie!)
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