Mundane News

[Mo1959]

Wish these Magpies would do one. What a racket. We never used to get them here until a few years ago. Loads now and their call has got to be up there as one of the most raucous along with Jays.

 

[Andy in Germany]

One free camper with a dodge used by a friend if mine also. Get a used works van with orange top lights and Road Maintenance sign on the back and you can park most places and nobody bothers you. He also had a hard hat visible on the dashboard.
Inside is a camper conversion but not normally visible.

I really like that plan. If the apartment situation doesn't improve I may even try it...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Wish these Magpies would do one. What a racket. We never used to get them here until a few years ago. Loads now and their call has got to be up there as one of the most raucous along with Jays.

That reminds me that when I was a child in Leeds, late 50s, I never saw or heard a magpie. It wasn't till the family moved to London in the early 60s that I became familiar with them. Now, they're common in Leeds too. I wonder whether they've gradually extended their habitat northward.

You wait till the parakeet gets there. It's as rowdy as the magpie. Squawk, I'm flying! Squawk, I'm landing! Squawk, I'm in a tree! Squawk, squawk, squawk, nothing to report!

 

[Andy in Germany]

That reminds me that when I was a child in Leeds, late 50s, I never saw or heard a magpie. It wasn't till the family moved to London in the early 60s that I became familiar with them. Now, they're common in Leeds too. I wonder whether they've gradually extended their habitat northward.

You wait till the parakeet gets there. It's as rowdy as the magpie. Squawk, I'm flying! Squawk, I'm landing! Squawk, I'm in a tree! Squawk, squawk, squawk, nothing to report!

Or Robins, as mentioned elsewhere. Very territorial but not so bright:

"My garden"
"No, mine"
"No, mine"
"No mine, because... um... I've got a big red chest"
"Me too... so... my garden"
"Mine"
"Mine"
"Mine"
"Mine"

Meanwhile the Squirrel steals all the fat balls...

 

[oldwheels]

I really like that plan. If the apartment situation doesn't improve I may even try it...

An American student lived in a van on the campus car park for at least a year. Walden on Wheels is the book but cannot remember authors name. The van is only part of the book as he describes how he finished up debt free which is not usual for a student.
If you want more info I do have it on my kindle and could look his name up.
There is a whole sub culture of a variety of people who live in vans.

 

[oldwheels]

Wish these Magpies would do one. What a racket. We never used to get them here until a few years ago. Loads now and their call has got to be up there as one of the most raucous along with Jays.

They do not seem to have reached us yet but some have got as far as Oban I think. They have been moving north for quite a long time and they never used to be found north of Glasgow. No jays, no squirrels, no roe deer, no grass snakes, no foxes but some idiot seems to have introduced pine martens and of course sea eagles.

 

[Andy in Germany]

An American student lived in a van on the campus car park for at least a year. Walden on Wheels is the book but cannot remember authors name. The van is only part of the book as he describes how he finished up debt free which is not usual for a student.
If you want more info I do have it on my kindle and could look his name up.
There is a whole sub culture of a variety of people who live in vans.

I've been looking at the culture for a while, but the idea of disguising said van as a work van is a new one, although it's actually pretty obvious if you think about it...

 

[biggs682]

One digitalis re located

 

[PeteXXX]

Dog's been walked..
Dog's been washed..
👍

 

[Speicher]

They do not seem to have reached us yet but some have got as far as Oban I think. They have been moving north for quite a long time and they never used to be found north of Glasgow. No jays, no squirrels, no roe deer, no grass snakes, no foxes but some idiot seems to have introduced pine martens and of course sea eagles.

The deer, foxes, and adders, also ravens are in the field at the end of my garden. I have only seen a baby adder, so I assume the bigger ones are hidden in the long grass at the edge of the field. It is an absolutely enormouse field, full of beans.

Ravens are extremely noisy birds.

 

[classic33]

So they will be ideally placed for when customers return and go to their opposition !

Sainsburys got rid of theirs for the same reason. Morrison's when they were sold.

 

[tyred]

It's unbelievable hot and sunny. I am planning a little overnight camping trip to the coast but I am going to leave it until after about 2:30 or so to leave to avoid riding in the midday sun.

Today must be summer 2022. The grey season will probably return tomorrow...

 

[classic33]

That reminds me that when I was a child in Leeds, late 50s, I never saw or heard a magpie. It wasn't till the family moved to London in the early 60s that I became familiar with them. Now, they're common in Leeds too. I wonder whether they've gradually extended their habitat northward.

You wait till the parakeet gets there. It's as rowdy as the magpie. Squawk, I'm flying! Squawk, I'm landing! Squawk, I'm in a tree! Squawk, squawk, squawk, nothing to report!

Head west along the road from Leeds, and I'll say there were plenty of magpies in the 70's.
There's not as many as there used to be however. Numbers are dwindling year on year.

Wait whilst you get the owls on the early hours.

 

[DCLane]

Son no. 2 didn't get lost on the 10-mile up/down route on the A19, where he caught minute men 1, 2 and 3 and almost caught his 12-minute lady, unlike one rider who was on a country lane way off course, presumably having taken a too-early roundabout for the turn.

How do I know this? I might have taken a wrong turn heading back to the HQ for sign-out ...

 

[classic33]

St John's Wort bush has just gone in to bloom

Place a flower from the St. John’s Wort plant in each of your shoes before taking a walk, if you don't want to tire yourself out.