I wish it were Autumn

[OutBackP]

Sorry Toddy just checked the links. Pennine outdoor are out of stock of no see um mesh. But point north have midge netting in olive try this link hope it works this time


http://www.profabrics.co.uk/shop/show_product_info.php?id=MM351-99
http://www.profabrics.co.uk/snap_su...ings&termsx=Fabrics>>Mesh and Insect Nettings

Cheers

OBP

 

[JonnyP]

Wish it were autumn....... Toddy, After the dry weather and a couple of storms...........it looks like autumn here.........

 

[Toddy]

It's the same up here. There's a nature walk and a burn along the side fence of our house. Normally at this time of year it's bright vibrant green, but it's so dry that the hornbeam, the birch and the wych elm that leans over the garden fence are all crinkled up and loosing leaves. Even my beech hedge is looking sorry for itself, and we've been watering that.
We had summers like this one when I was a little girl, I looked like a gypsy but the winters were bitter cold and white.The birds seemed to suffer most; I've always been up early and I usually hear the dawn chorus. Even as a child I knew the birds were silent. My dad said they were all hiding in barns or had flown to Africa to keep warm when I asked what had happened to them.
Folk would put out *some* food for the birds back then, but no-one could afford to buy food *just* for the birds; we used to make tea and then pour the remaining hot water from the kettle into the birdbath so they could get a drink. I saw an electrically heated birdbath adapter last winter , wonder if we could adapt one of those solar panels to keep the ice melted?

Cheers,
Toddy

 

[belto]

I'm hot, sticky, and half slept. It's been so hot and humid here this week that I can't sleep. By 3.30am last night I gave up trying and went outside to curl up in one of the garden chairs beside the pond to try and cool down and doze. Hedgehogs are noisy beggars aren't they?....'specially when the moggie decides to play too, it rather scuppered the dozing in the peace and quiet , and it got better when the magpies woke up and annoyed the squirrels in the big birch beside the fence. The blackies got in on the act too and then I felt a stabbing pain in my foot and found one of those d*mned berry bugs had bitten me and my foot is now burning itchy
The house is like a sauna *again* tonight, even the cat is panting

This reminds me of the story Peace At Last! Lol