Over the weekend, I noticed the pigeons in the garden getting very frisky!  We have a pair of them, that together with the two fat squirrels, empty all three of my feeders with sunflower hearts in as quickly as we we can fill them up!
The pigeons make me laugh. They're so clumsy and often fall off the branch their balancing on. I took their amorous behaviour as the first sign of spring and have noticed the afternoons staying light for longer, so that gives me something to look forward to.


I get a lot of joy watching the birds and other wildlife in the garden. I also get various members of the tit family, sparrows, goldfinches (I have a niger seed feeder), a pair of black birds, a robin, magpies, and more. But no starlings. When I was a kid, starlings were everywhere and now it's really patchy.
We also have a fox family living at the end of the garden and they are great fun. They drive the dog crazy and I'm sure they deliberately taunt him! And they can be very vocal at night.

I am impressed too, my favourite are the donkeys https://arthouseunlimited.org/shop/donkey-disco-postcard-dark-chocolate-with-truffle-honey-sea-salt-and-pistachio/

Hello DD, I'm not sure why my first posting was cut short but anyway, I hope you might still hear from the seller you found, the only thought though that crosses my mind is were the seller to be telling you the car is still available might that be because the first viewer found fault?  There could be all sorts of reasons so I'd just pay that bit more attention to any examination of it. I many years before my accident bought a car off the driveway of the seller, I got into the driver seat, it was a Mk5 Cortina estate, turned over the engine and pretty much that was it car sold. Later the same day when my then wife and I were leaving the shop we ran and she went to open her door it near dropped into the street. The door was only hanging on by the bottom hinge bracket. We managed to get that repaired but the lesson was learnt.

My sister's partner, I was explaining in my earlier posting, had a couple of mobility cars removed from his use following repeated personal independence assessments. He'd go through the assessment appeal the result and have the car returned only to have to go through the whole thing again within a few months so having my car outwith the mobility scheme is something that sees me so much more relaxed about my next assessment as I know the car will not be taken from me.

Thanks JLR. I've seen this great car and emailed the seller only to find that someone else had booked a test drive for Tuesday. However, the chap said he would contact me if he didn't turn up for any reason. It's a really good buy and local to us and it all seemed too good to be true.!
Never mind. I'm sure something else will come along. I've got a couple of months to keep looking.

...with luck my Dad will soon get his vaccine doses and have some protection.

If your Dad is over 80, he won't have very long to wait, I shouldn't think - my Dad got a call from his doctor last week to arrange the first jab for tomorrow...

Sunshine, I've already concluded we will probably have to live with Covid, like we do the flu, with new vaccinations every year for the most vulnerable once we've achieved some sort of herd immunity - we obviously can't continue the cycle of lockdowns two or three times a year indefinitely!