Big boob blunder

Classic news story!

Good rats

Rats can clear land mines! They can clear a 200sq m minefield in two hours. It takes a human one day to do that. This makes me feel slightly less angry about Missy bringing in a rat and leaving it loose in the house. I hope it's doing something good under the floorboards and not just chewing through wires, that'll eventually spark and burn down my house.

I do love rats though.

More poodles

I've just won these beauts on Ebay. I'm so excited about this!! That's five, yes, five poodle pictures now in my possession. It'll be a total showstopper once they're up on the wall. And I now have my eye on two 3d pictures - one of an Alsation and one of a Collie. As you'd expect from a cheap 3d picture of a dog from the 70's, they are truly hideous. But they're right up my street!

Now I'm living like a teenager

Eek!

"I can't bare to look."

There is no excuse for this mess. It looks like we've been burgled!

Old persons' picnic

Passers-by seemed quite jealous of this picnic. And two dogs tried to steal it!

Gone are the days when Sunday would be spent recovering from Saturday night clubbing. Today I packed a picnic, donned my cagoule, grabbed my binoculars and went for a ramble on Farthing Downs. As we sat sipping tea from our flasks I actually heard myself say "Ahh, this is the life," without any sarcasm. It was a lovely day. But in true pensioner style, my newly aquired bad knee gave me trouble and I got a blister on my ankle from my wellingtons rubbing.

A pile of leaves

The beginnings of a huge pile of leaves

A dying Chinese Lantern plant reminiscing about Halloween

A lovely sunny day meant I could finally do some of my gardening tasks. Mainly leaf clearing. I couldn't be bothered to make a leaf compost contraption so I have just shoved all the leaves in a sheltered corner of the garden, which should do the trick. It'll also make a nice winter hibernation home for any passing frogs.

Mighty magpie

A nice picture of a robin

Totally getting back into my bird watching. Today I watched many bullies at the lard ball. Sparrows rule against tits. Starlings pick on the sparrows. But Magpie wins over all. And later a very sweet robin snatched a nut on the sly.