... and where else would you be but in front of a roaring fire?!
It's been a horrible day here, cold, wet and windy. The girls are settled in front of the fire, you can just make out Gracie's white collar in Tom's basket. Tom is on top of the wardrobe and Bob on back of the sofa.
He came in a little while ago, dripping wet and bounced over to me to be dried - I had to squeeze out the cloth.
Yes folks, it's officially the first day of summer!
LOL - ain't that the truth! (Your living room looks lovely and cosy btw )
Lashing gales and torrential rain here in Wakefield - Emily and Mouse are roosting in igloos or on thermal blankets/warm tops of vivariums, Moll is snuggled next to me on the bed that doubles as sofa (more room to spread myself with sewing/book/laptop) and my glam new garden furniture (green Parisian cafe-style) is still cowering in its cardboard boxes...this may be summer, but not as we know it, Jim...
However. Being extremely low on snake food I've had a good clean out of the freezers and am planning on a bulk delivery of frozen food for 14 snakes. This is ideally done during a cool spell.
What do you bet? The minute I place my order, the sun will come out and we'll have a heatwave. I can predict it! Flaming June!
It's been a very strange day here in SW London. I was working from home and expected to be regularly distracted by the gang of three but they barely stirred all day. Lou Lou came down briefly from her igloo on the bed to go to the loo, give the garden a once over and was then back upstairs until 8.30pm! Edgar wandered in and out a few times, had a cursory play, but spent most of the day on the sofa with Pepsi, who, in turn, only went out after breakfast to do her business and has remained on the sofa all day. Perversely, Lou and Edgar are now in the garden in the drizzly, windy darkness, fired up by Edgar's near miss with a blackbird. Thank goodness I saw what was happening and could divert them until the blackbird got away. Earlier in the day, if it wasn't that they all were eating well (everyone has had Nutriment raw today), I would have started to wonder if they had all picked up a bug, they were so torpid. But I put it down to the strangeness of this so called summer day. The animal communicator we work with has mentioned before how the cats pick up the changes in the climate much better than we do, and will often just take a day to recharge their batteries if it is a quiet, hanging sort of day.
Lilith - are you in the UK? For some reason, I'd imagined you were in the US. I must have been very unobservant to have missed that.
Hi Sarah, no, I've lived in Yorks all my life (for my sins lol.) Though I do have relations and relations by marriage in California and El Paso, but never visited the states...I think the name Lilith's more fashionable over there (it is my real name) than it is in the UK so maybe sounds American. I usually call myself plain Lil so of course everyone says, oh, Lilian...grrr
Oh naughty Edgar and the blackbird. Glad it escaped. This is a really inner-city area but close to a huge park so there are bats, foxes (though foxes are wise to the benefits of fast food joint bins in the city) and a lot of birds and insects; there is one gorgeous blackbird who serenades us at 5am but I'm scared that every year he and his wife will choose to build their nest in the rampant ivy that a neighbour planted between her garden and mine...imagine a summer of saying 'no' to my terrible Molly...
Yes, it could have been the name, it does have a kind of hoe down feel about it!
We are city too, but on the edge of parks and woodland in zone 2/3 of London, so we get a lot of wildlife. We lived opposite Putney Heath up to last year and regularly saw badgers running around in the street. We have foxes still here, but haven't seen badgers yet, apart from a sadly deceased one in the road. We have started a new garden from scratch here, near Richmond Park, and bit by bit the birds are coming in, but there is a lot of 'No, Edgar, no!!' going on at the moment. He and Lou Lou often stake out the garden at night for mice and we have had a few indoors!
Kisses to your babies, furry and smooth, and to your's too, Sue. xx
i am in a posher part of West Yorkshire than Lilith ,...( if you believe that you believe anything ) so we have had a balmy hot day, cats have been basking in the warmth.....that is if you count blooming central heating STILL on most of day til bedtime...mainly for them !
I think a few trees may have gone on rural roads with gale force winds last night...
luckily my baby Great Tits fledged last Thursday. eventually..Cats were on lockdown...i had to give them a helping hand again, but got the video of them fledging and close up photo..then camera broke!
nannymcfee wrote:i am in a posher part of West Yorkshire than Lilith ,...( if you believe that you believe anything ) so we have had a balmy hot day, cats have been basking in the warmth.....that is if you count blooming central heating STILL on most of day til bedtime...mainly for them !
I think a few trees may have gone on rural roads with gale force winds last night...
luckily my baby Great Tits fledged last Thursday. eventually..Cats were on lockdown...i had to give them a helping hand again, but got the video of them fledging and close up photo..then camera broke!
LOL! ANYWHERE'S posher than here!
Mind you, it can be lively at times - I've always said it should be renamed Consternation Street ...
ps edit - congrats re the tits...errm perhaps I should rephrase that!
Lilith wrote:ps edit - congrats re the tits...errm perhaps I should rephrase that!
that did make me giggle
I am so sick and tired of this miserable weather and more than ready for some nice warm sunny balmy days to sit outside after work.
As for wildlife - I came home to a dead starling in my hallway the other day; poor bird and yesterday there were the wing feathers remaining of another bird - I suspect a sparrow . I'm not sure who it is that's catching them though.
One of our fledglings ,taken last Thursday. i named him Cyril, he decided to spend all day in garden along with siblings...so along with cats, carrion crow and magpie.....will they survive...
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Cats were very useful in some respect, for the little ones.
I would brush the cats when the Great Tits were starting to build their nest, and lay the fur on lawn, for a few mornings, within a minute the Great Tits would gather it all up and take it to line the nest
nannymcfee wrote:Cats were very useful in some respect, for the little ones.
I would brush the cats when the Great Tits were starting to build their nest, and lay the fur on lawn, for a few mornings, within a minute the Great Tits would gather it all up and take it to line the nest
They are such trusting birds ,
.....
I used to do that when I had my allotment - I'd collect the cat brushings and pack them into a peanut feeder. There was a nearby tree where I hung a nesting box and the tits used it, and the fur to make their nest. I've left the allotment but I still have that nest on my mantelpiece; it's about 4 inches square; my tits were just the ordinary small sort...
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. I'm not sure who it is that's catching them though.
