Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

misskool

Been out all day. I'm loving it. Just coming in to top up hayfever meds.
I've gone a lovely brown but am worried for all the people who haven't remembered sun cream.

It always astonishes me that people with fairer skin seem to forget sun cream when the sun comes out. I slather it on and I don't burn easily...

lostinrates

I'm in , DH is out. He needs the sun, I'm avoiding it. In fact I'm ashamed to admit I have done almost nothing all day and slept most of the afternoon.

harryhound

SingleSue wrote: »

Think I am being in over sensitive mood this morning, sorry if you don't intend it that way Harry, but it feels like you are getting at me.

Blame it on my hormones if you are not.

Hi Sue,

I'm sure you are doing all these things anyway :

It is only when it hits you that you realise that there is something to the guff about posture and regular breaks from key boards and a regime of regular exercise aimed core stability etc.
A good mattress is essential.
There is also a sort of feed back mechanism - something about being optimistic and natural endorphins.

Its been a lovely day today - the light out doors is a huge magnitude if what is available, and really we are designed to live much nearer the tropics anyway.
I have a bird box full of baby blue tits - they have been looking out of the hole all day and now I have the smallest bundle of fluff, I've ever seen standing on a flower pot on the kitchen window sill, with a sibling still plucking up courage inside the box.

Let us know how things go with the scan.

Harry.

GDB2222

An update on our wheelie bin with a nest of little fledglings. Things have changed. There is now one large fledgling filling the whole nest. I'm not sure I like nature.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

An update on our wheelie bin with a nest of little fledglings. Things have changed. There is now one large fledgling filling the whole nest. I'm not sure I like nature.

Nature is cruel, not the fluffy bunny thing often portrayed. It often isn't just, or sunny. Nevertheless, its still beautiful: its hard to see that at times, when the beauty is...savage.

Its a big night here, although our chicks are young they are very sizey. And its warm. And they are no longer getting the heat lamp at night in this hot weather. I'm going to start the evening with the intention of leaving them out tonight. I've put straw in for warmth (instead of shavings) although they are bizzing about in the outside bit of the broody coop, as now its cooler. I might well relent later, Ill keep checking and if the look even slightly cold I'll swoop them inside.

I know that its due to be cooler again soon, and they'll certainly be back in then.

SingleSue

harryhound wrote: »

Hi Sue,

I'm sure you are doing all these things anyway :

It is only when it hits you that you realise that there is something to the guff about posture and regular breaks from key boards and a regime of regular exercise aimed core stability etc.
A good mattress is essential.
There is also a sort of feed back mechanism - something about being optimistic and natural endorphins.

Its been a lovely day today - the light out doors is a huge magnitude if what is available, and really we are designed to live much nearer the tropics anyway.
I have a bird box full of baby blue tits - they have been looking out of the hole all day and now I have the smallest bundle of fluff, I've ever seen standing on a flower pot on the kitchen window sill, with a sibling still plucking up courage inside the box.

Let us know how things go with the scan.

Harry.

Certainly do Harry.....unfortunately my spine has an extreme inward curve due to a birth defect plus the hypermobility means things have always and will always be 'wobbly' (as the neck and back specialist so nicely put it) and prone to injury, no matter how much the core is strengthened etc.

Should see the fun we have buying mattresses, too soft and I can't move in the morning, too hard and the extreme arch then causes problems and a medium is no good either...so it has to be a perfect mix of a slightly hard but not as soft as a medium mattress. :rotfl:

Anyway, today has been spent outside at a speedway meeting with two of my boys and a family friend (kids go free and only £6 for me)....too hot at times but it was nice to get out and about for once and to have nice weather too!

I'm not a sun lover really, I'm not the sort to sit out in it and prefer to be indoors, especially on very sunny days as I am unable to use sun cream and the special stuff is very expensive :eek:

Davesnave

Have to admit, I forgot my nose when it came to sun cream, and working outside all week, it's now very flaky. We've been doing major things with the digger again.....

I have updated my Photobucket album, as it's easier than explaining everything here.

On the ornithological front, we've had siskins, a partridge and a woodpecker as extras in the feeder areas over the last few days. We thought we were providing enough water, but when I began watering the nursery stock, a young greenfinch just landed in front of me and began drinking the run-off. It was clearly desperate and so groggy I could have touched it. Five minutes later it was perkier, and it flew off shortly after without apparent difficulty.

While the barn owl has not returned, a wren has taken over an old swallows' nest in the barn, adapted it with moss, and is now sitting on eggs.

treliac

How lovely, Dave. I haven't seen a wren in the garden for a few years now. Hope yours brings a few more into the world!

PasturesNew

Lots of birds in the garden here. I'm not a bird person, but I'll try.... there were two dinky bog standard little birds, one almost resident robin, couple of pigeons, couple of medium sized black things and the usual dog-sized seagulls

They all happily co-exist, never fighting over the food we put out.

lostinrates

The crows took on one of the buzzards yesterday. I was fearsome. It was actually reminiscent of a world war film, all fighting in the air.

We have wrens, such sweet little fragile things, and song thrushes, such a subtle beauty, and various tits, and the woodpeckers. I love the woodpecker. I presume the cats caught it once and he was certainly noisy and vehement enough to frighten them of, they having brought him in. I heard a terrible racket in the bedroom and nipping up found him buried in the laundry pile. Too scared of that big strong beak to move him myself I went to get DH, who fearlessly carried him out, albeit holding his arms straight out in front of him, and put him back in his tree. He was fine.

I forgot the swallows. The swallows are amazing, the way they dive. They add such movement to the landscape.