On the way to the garden centre

Your blog amused me on this cold horrible day - poor ducks.

oh good ~ thanks kfunsters ~ those ducks are funny arent they!

I really enjoyed this,Sticki..it made me smile..Lovely blog and pics.The weather has been like that here too..bitterly cold,but lovely sunshine..

Trips to the GC....the one flaw is all the money that seems to fly from the purse and right into the till! Sounds like you had a productive shop.

The swan must have been sleeping? I enjoyed your tale of the skating ducks...very imaginative. Don't you try going on the ice and having a skate about now, will you, Sticki? lol

thanks bloomer ;o))
i will try hard not to skate WL ~ the swan was cleaning himself ~ had to wait ages for him to put his head round that way ~ and it wasnt very warm waiting!! but you cant hurry a swan ~ it seems.

Love this blog, couldnt fail to put a smile on ones face, have seen the antics of ducks on frozen water comical to watch, but perhaphs not so funny if you happen to be one of our feathered friends;0)

Ah! Memories of taking a Christmas Day walk with my daughters and my mother to the lake I enjoyed as a child - only to literally fall over with laughter at the ducks as they came flying in and sliding on the ice, only to crash spectacularly into the other ducks! I could have watched all day! Thanks for reviving that memory with your lovely blog. :o)

Poor ducks! They tried to imitate Torville and Dean, but it turned into Frick and Frack (if any of you are old enough to remember them!) Thanks, Stickitoffee!

Those tree trunks are lovely. Pitty everything is so frozen up. But I bet it was warm in the garden centre :o)

don't think this old adage will be true this year somehow!
Ice in november to bear a duck
the rest of the winter just sludge and muck

we'll see!
lovely photo Sticki well done for having the camera handy

I hope it's true ;o)

lovely blog, I enjoyed it, great photos too.

thanks everyone!
it was too good to miss ~ so i hoped you would enjoy it too!

Brill blog and photos to cheer everyone up on a very cold day

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great blog Stick, sooo funny,i like the stuck on leaves too. lol..

thanks joanella, they're not really stuck on but they are so golden and everything else round here has fallen off so these seem to look odd ~ they are in the middle of the shopping centre so i suppose they are protected

ha ha i know they are not really stuck on,:o)))

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There are some 'lollypop' evergreen trees in our Brewery shopping centre at Romford in big containers. I was Locking my bike up near one, when a flock of little birds dived into it. Returning from Sainsburys they were all chirping merrily, as I drew nigh, they all went stum.....not a sound. I think they like the warmth too, like the leaves, as Stickitoffee suggested. Just a tiny microclimate is enough. They were definately not sparrows.

smaller than sparrows?

It was just around dusk Stickitoffee. They had longer tails than sparrows, and the noise they made was not same as sparrows roosting. ? Meadow Pippets, as fields not far away. About 1/2 mile as little bird flies.

dont think i have ever seen those, i like their name!