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Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

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  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,333 Forumite
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    At Last! Photobucket would load my album!


    The original table....

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    The renovated table.....

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    So much work! So much skill! That's brilliant. :)
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • ukmaggie45
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    Sun came out for a bit, went out to take photo, and could feel the heat on my back! :j

    30584879436_237c6d580d_z.jpgSome sunshine and a gorgeous sky! by Maggie, on Flickr

    John's dug up the agapanthus from the hedge - it never flowered after we transplanted it. Suspect not enough sun. But we now have 3 HUGE pots, and there's still another pot's worth left in hedge. We're taking one pot home while I still have the big car. Others we'll just move to where they'll get more sun on the patio.

    Providing my recent health issues prove to be relatively non serious we're thinking of maybe replacing caravan a bit early, before we absolutely have to. (2 more years I think) We've sent off for lots of brochures! :rotfl:

    Lots of birds at the feeders - had at least a dozen goldfinches this afternoon! :) Plus some great tits, at least one blue tit, couple of greenfinches and at least one sparrow. My feathered friends may be expensive to feed, but they give us both a lot of pleasure. :)

    Plan is to go home Sunday, as that does still leave us a day's grace if anything happens.
  • michaels
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    I love to come on the NP thread and find the conversation has turned to tits. Do you have any photos?
    I think....
  • ukmaggie45
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    michaels wrote: »
    I love to come on the NP thread and find the conversation has turned to tits. Do you have any photos?
    :eek:

    The (feathered) birds are too shy mostly for us to get photos - I think whatever my camera uses for focusing scares them off.
  • ivyleaf
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    How lovely Maggie! Round here we only get pigeons, magpies, an occasional sparrow and more pigeons. Oh, and a pair of robins :)
  • chris_m
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    edited 28 October 2016 at 8:52PM
    We get loads of sparrows around here - I reckon they manage to scoff at least 75% of the sunflower hearts I put out. I'm not complaining too much though, they are in decline nationally so it's good to see them in decent numbers here.

    The rest of the food mostly goes to goldfinches with the occasional blue tit, great tit, chaffinch or greenfinch. What and how many birds come is very seasonal, the most goldies I've had in at one go recently has been 6. One day in March I counted 10 goldies and 4 siskins all queueing up for their turn.

    It's quite interesting seeing the different feeding techniques. The finches and sparrows take a seed and simply crunch it up, ignoring the bits that fall off. Other sparrows eat the detritus off the ground, luckily. The great tits come in, grab a seed and fly off, whereas the blue tits also grab a seed but fly to the nearest convenient perch (often the rope from which the feeder is hung) and clamp the seed under one foot while they peck away at it until it's all gone - then go back to collect another.

    Other than the birds that come to my feeder, we also have robins, blackbirds, collared doves, herring gulls, at least one wren - and a large gang of starlings which will devour anything they can get their beaks around very rapidly. I had to rig up chicken wire around the seed feeder to prevent them getting at the contents whilst still allowing the smaller birds in. My neighbours put up a fat ball last week, it took the starlings half a day to figure out how to perch on it and eat (although a couple managed very creditable humming bird imitations) but once they'd figured it out, the entire thing was gone in less than 24 hours, and it wasn't a small fatball.
  • vivatifosi
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    People who've been around the many previous versions of the NPT may recall I used to have a blackbird in my garden that I called phonebird, because he would "ring" and wake me up in the morning. Used to come back every year to the same garden, but went when my neighbour chopped the tree he lived in down.

    Currently I have a very brave robin, who follows me around when I'm gardening in case I dig up a worm.
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
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    Oh, and my parents, who feed the entire bird population where they live. They use value oats and any left over fat that we give them to make their own puddings. They have hundreds of starlings and some smaller garden birds, as well as lots of pigeons and collared doves. They are the largest birds that fit on their bird table. It was designed to be too small for crows.
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • hjd
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    My MIL used to hurl large amounts of food out for the birds and then run out waving her hands in the air to scare them off if the "wrong type" of birds dared venture in.
    She would throw out a whole frozen gateau (still frozen and in one piece). Eventually the birds stopped coming and it was just the rats. She wouldn't have it that her behaviour was responsible for the rats being there.
    We have a very tame robin who follows you around the garden, plus a green woodpecker who pecks very large holes in the ground.
    At our last house (1.5 miles away) we also had a very tame robin and a green woodpecker.
  • SingleSue
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    Joe was not impressed with Lincoln as a place initially but I think that was more down to the fact he was tired and the first impression when you come out of the station is not a positive one.

    However, as the day has progressed he is coming to love it more and more so it is fingers crossed the uni impresses tomorrow now.

    We have done the cathedral, the castle (well the bits you didn't have to pay for anyway), quite a few shops and even Steep Hill...we cheated though and got a taxi up and took a very slow and multi break (as in rest not bones!) walk down again. I was absolutely determined I was going to do it and although my whole body was doing the weird jerky robot thing, I did it.

    I am so not going to be able to do anything for god know how long and it was probably very silly and damaging but I am still proud of myself.

    Oh and we went to the cinema tonight!
    We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
    Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.
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