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Watched a handsome Green Woodpecker seeking grubs and worms in the Communal lawn yesterday. Stayed around for a good 15 minutes... A very timid bird though - will fly off if he catches sight of you moving.. jenny namaste

@Fof ours aren't even showing buds! Lovely to see yours in such gorgeous colour.

Good morning all, rain-dark and dismal high of 7c.

I dont give a monkey's whether they were healthy, they always look well enough to me.

Good nearly afternoon to you all!!Very mild here - 10°C and will maybe get to 13 or 14°C. A weak and watery sun as the sky is grey.I pointed out to my nice friend last week a positive point (he was feeling glum after having been "tied" to the couch). At 6pm it was not dark any more -...

Thirty plus years ago one October I took the train from Baden Baden changed once (I think) and went along the Rhine to Cologne where the train went along the Ruhr Valley towards Hamburg and I got off at Herford. The whole journey was fascinating, but especially along the Rhine with vineyards on...

A young priest is asked to stand in and take Mass at the local nunnery as he walks through the town a young lady calls out and asks if he'd like a quickie, he doesn't know what she means and just carries on. The Mass goes well and the Mother Superior invites him to have a sherry in her study....

Well the ground is very wet so not much. However on the way to the car I noticed that the first crocuses are coming into flower, more snowdrops have popped up and a saw the first Anemone nemorosa flower about to open. On the staging on the decking the gladioli are in full leaf and, note to self,...

Jim says not to give tinned tuna to them either. For all these years I gave all my cats the tuna water maybe once every week or two with no problems.Here was Munchkin earlier snoozing on the sofa arm ...

I was looking idly at the rain out of an upper floor window an hour ago when I saw two beautiful foxes cross the garden from right to left in single file. They seemed unhurried but businesslike - straight across the garden with no hesitation or diversions.