What have you been doing today?

Another early morning session over the allotment to get somethings done before the sun rose over a line of trees and taking my shade away. Gave up at 10.30 and came home. Straight in the shower. Thinking of booking a holiday to get away from this heat. Death Valley is looking promising at the moment…..
 
Mottie said:
Another early morning session over the allotment to get somethings done before the sun rose over a line of trees and taking my shade away. Gave up at 10.30 and came home. Straight in the shower. Thinking of booking a holiday to get away from this heat. Death Valley is looking promising at the moment…..
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Book a cruise, lose some weight (y)
 
Took the Grandkids to Hyde Hall today. Had a great time - they particularly liked feeding the goslings.

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Came home and spent most of the afternoon protecting a young starling fledgling that the magpies were trying to get. I heard the screaming of the other starlings outside on my drive and knew immediately that something was up. I rushed out and shooed the magpies off. I hate those bástards. The fledgling took refuge under our car. Ten minutes later and the same again, and again and again - seemed like it was every ten or 15 minutes I was running out, clapping my hands! Neighbours must have thought I was crackers. It’s been quiet for over an hour now. They seem to have given up and I’ve seen the parents visiting the fledgling. I just hope it can see the night out and be able to fly tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

Right, off to the allotment for a couple of hours - not so hot today.
 
Mottie said:
Came home and spent most of the afternoon protecting a young starling fledgling that the magpies were trying to get. I heard the screaming of the other starlings outside on my drive and knew immediately that something was up. I rushed out and shooed the magpies off. I hate those bástards. The fledgling took refuge under our car. Ten minutes later and the same again, and again and again - seemed like it was every ten or 15 minutes I was running out, clapping my hands! Neighbours must have thought I was crackers. It’s been quiet for over an hour now. They seem to have given up and I’ve seen the parents visiting the fledgling. I just hope it can see the night out and be able to fly tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
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It’s like 'kin killing fields down our road! I was out watering some plants across the road on the patch of land I’ve adopted, heard a load of screaming and further down the road I saw a cat going under a parked car after another (maybe the same?) fledgling starling. I ran up and shoed it off and chased it halfway down the street being assisted by some adult starlings who were dive bombing it. Strange, because it didn’t have the young bird in its jaws. I hate this time of the year when the cats, crows and magpies are on the hunt for young birds.
 
Tried out my new table top barbecue tonight. Bit of a failure. Didn’t have quite enough coals so they burned down before I’d cooked my chicken thighs so I finished them off in the oven. The ashes were stone cold when I came to clear up so I tipped them into a bag of soil that I had waiting to go to the tip. Went out to water the allotment and had a call from Mrs Mottie - the bag had caught fire! She noticed some black smoke coming over our fence, went out to check and the bag of soil was on fire as well as the one next to it that had some grass in it. She put it out with the hose but of course, I didn’t half get it in the ear'ole when I got home. Luckily, I didn’t chuck them in our plastic dustbin in our wooden bin store next to our wooden fence. Now that would have been bad.

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Harvested the last of this years asparagus crop from the plot of Mott. They have started to Fern out so I’ll let any others go to Fern to build up the root stock for next seasons. I’m glad - I was getting sick of eating it every other day proving that you can have too much of a good thing!

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I will of course be posting pics of me in my uniform with handcuffs on and I bet all the female prison officers flock to my cell.
 
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