Update on the wildlife....

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So the bird feeding station is up and joy of joy’s I have a regular visitor already, a lovely wood pigeon. Now I thought this was a cause for celebration and I do not mind admitting I was beside myself over this. My enthusiasm was not really shared by the bloke and Harry ( I have forgiven Annie for not getting too excited – she is only 11 weeks old after all). I was bouncing up and down scrambling for Harry’s RSPB book of garden birds to try to get him to identify the “mystery bird” with the bloke looking on and very helpfully stating “It’s a pigeon” with a tone of stoicism that was, quite frankly, uncalled for so I persevered and Harry saw the picture in his book and corrected his father “No Daddy, you’re wrong, it’s a WOOD pigeon”. Don’t worry, I was the bigger person and didn’t laugh in the bloke’s face and I refrained from doing my “I told you so” dance, and what did I get for my matureness? The bloke stomping out muttering about “…it’s a blo*dy pigeon not a s*ddin’ albatross…” and so on and so such. So I was that happy over a bird, imagine how happy I am now that some of my seeds are sprouting – I am even ignoring the fact that I don’t like rocket and the rocket seems to be doing the best, I truly felt that the nature wouldn’t work because I was asking it to, but I should have known better. Not really sure what to do with them now, mind, so back to the books for the next step – how organised am I? Anyway, my mum popped over yesterday and I was telling her how I am going to dismantle our very old and past it’s best wooden bench and create a woodpile next to the small nettle patch next to my buddleia, and from the mouth of someone who should be wiser based on life experience sniffs at me “You’d be better with a log pile”. Mother didn’t appreciate me pointing out that I want to conserve nature so encouraging the hacking down of tree’s because it appealed to my mum’s aestetic values didn’t go down too well. So in essence, I have manged to annoy pretty much everyone in my life, hooray. Oh and I have ordered a water butt – can’t wait to see the bloke’s face when that arrives!!! Miss C

• 4 Apr, 2009
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