Post by tl on Apr 1, 2006 20:53:16 GMT 1
Hi everyone. This has been one awful day weather wise. Iced rain and lots of it, in fact it has never stopped. All the burns are full and running, and there's standing water across acres of grass once more. It seems as if this Winter will never end. We have another one just like it promised for tomorrow!
I have spoken to Honor a couple of times today. She's holding up quite well. I passed on your sympathetic messages, and she was so pleased that we were all thinking about her. She sends her love.
Maybe one day she will be back on the DG amongst us again. I know she would like that.
She's looking forward to seeing you Shep and knows that George will be in the very best of hands.
I had the excitement of seeing an Ivory gull for the first time today. I was watching the rain and noticed a bird I knew I had never seen before. What a beautiful sight. Pure ivory white, and very distinctive from the Icelandic which we do get from time to time. No camera at the ready unfortunately.
The Redwing has been pottering about again. Odd that it is just the one. They are gregarious and tend to move about in flocks. Curlews, Oyster Catchers and Redshank, oh and a solitary snipe have all been active and busy across the lawn and close to the house. They need to keep up the good work, I shall have to start the slug run again, the wretched things have eaten all the baby Foxglove plants and are making a meal out of the new Iris leaves. If there's one thing I can't abide it's a plant eating slug.
Honor was suggesting ducks. There's no way I shall get that by OH...!
That is some bit Aberlemno. It looks quite severe to me. Lets put it this way, I dont think I would like to find it in my mouth! The things we have done and do to equines!
How are the curtains Rosemary? Would it not be possible for your local library to order the books for you? They are such heavy things, and to carry them even a short way soon has them feeling like a ton. You must have been worn out by the time you got them home.
So pleased you liked the photograph Ann . We had just come back from taking the dogs up to the sand shore. I had been taking pictures of the broch of Gurness. It's a fascinating site right on the cliff edge with many periods of occupation. At this time of the year I can get it all to myself. The Pictish house plans are very obvious, and it's quite an experience to stand there in the silence and imagine how it once was. It must have been extremely cold in the depth of Winter. I doubt that they lived for very long. The broch walls are still very substantial. It's a good one to visit if you ever get this way. We wandered along our own shore for a wee way, and the lighting for that picture seemed just about right, it was such a softly gentle sea, with hardly a ripple on the water.
Has your grass greened up Jude? Please feel free to take as much of our rain as you need. We have got far too much!
Darkness has fallen across the water. The lights from the little town twinkle and look like beads upon a thread. Tomorrow is another day. Keep safe everyone.
I have spoken to Honor a couple of times today. She's holding up quite well. I passed on your sympathetic messages, and she was so pleased that we were all thinking about her. She sends her love.
Maybe one day she will be back on the DG amongst us again. I know she would like that.
She's looking forward to seeing you Shep and knows that George will be in the very best of hands.
I had the excitement of seeing an Ivory gull for the first time today. I was watching the rain and noticed a bird I knew I had never seen before. What a beautiful sight. Pure ivory white, and very distinctive from the Icelandic which we do get from time to time. No camera at the ready unfortunately.
The Redwing has been pottering about again. Odd that it is just the one. They are gregarious and tend to move about in flocks. Curlews, Oyster Catchers and Redshank, oh and a solitary snipe have all been active and busy across the lawn and close to the house. They need to keep up the good work, I shall have to start the slug run again, the wretched things have eaten all the baby Foxglove plants and are making a meal out of the new Iris leaves. If there's one thing I can't abide it's a plant eating slug.
Honor was suggesting ducks. There's no way I shall get that by OH...!
That is some bit Aberlemno. It looks quite severe to me. Lets put it this way, I dont think I would like to find it in my mouth! The things we have done and do to equines!
How are the curtains Rosemary? Would it not be possible for your local library to order the books for you? They are such heavy things, and to carry them even a short way soon has them feeling like a ton. You must have been worn out by the time you got them home.
So pleased you liked the photograph Ann . We had just come back from taking the dogs up to the sand shore. I had been taking pictures of the broch of Gurness. It's a fascinating site right on the cliff edge with many periods of occupation. At this time of the year I can get it all to myself. The Pictish house plans are very obvious, and it's quite an experience to stand there in the silence and imagine how it once was. It must have been extremely cold in the depth of Winter. I doubt that they lived for very long. The broch walls are still very substantial. It's a good one to visit if you ever get this way. We wandered along our own shore for a wee way, and the lighting for that picture seemed just about right, it was such a softly gentle sea, with hardly a ripple on the water.
Has your grass greened up Jude? Please feel free to take as much of our rain as you need. We have got far too much!
Darkness has fallen across the water. The lights from the little town twinkle and look like beads upon a thread. Tomorrow is another day. Keep safe everyone.