rARsh!

HELP!

Let’s imagine - just for the sake of argument - that you were toying with visiting the extreme cardinal points of the UK and defined these points as the furthest north, south, east and west you can travel without taking a ferry.

North’s easy - Dunnet Head, just west of John o’Groats. East is Lowestoft (which is handy). South is the Lizard peninsula.

West is …

Hmmm - tricky. I need your opinions, people.

Here’s a map, in case it helps your decision.

With that bridge, you see, Skye’s no longer inaccessible to those who want to avoid boats.

I await your wise words with interest.

News travels fast

All the documentation which arrived with the feeders stressed that it can take a few weeks for new of the new bounty to spread among my avian friends.

Piffle.

I arrived home to find the fat balls in great demand.

Starlings.

Bloody starlings.

Still, there’s no way they can keep news of this quiet - nicer birds will be along shortly, I’m sure.

I think that’s a hen chaffinch on the table, but light wasn’t good and I had to resort to digital zoom with the pocket camera so I can’t be sure.

Swiz

What sort of an election is it where you get two votes but only three candidates - and two of those are bloody Tories?

I feel swizzled.

Meep

I was only looking for a suitable luggage rack.

Honest.

Watch the birdie

Packages a-plenty arrived at rARsh Manor while I was at work - three from those nice folk at Wiggle Wigglers and another from the RSPB, as I mentioned in last Friday’s post. That’s darned impressive, isn’t it? It also means that I am in possession of approximately 25kg of bird food!

I picked up one freestanding bracket which will hold two of the feeders at a garden centre in Norwhag and one tube of peanuts and another of seed are duly installed. I need to return to pick up brackets (either freestanding or wall-mounted) for three more feeders and see they’re open until 6pm, so will hopefully do so tomorrow evening if the weather’s fine. The weather’s a factor as I’ll have the Copen and there’s no way I’d get them in the car with the roof up! As it is, it’ll be a fun enough trip home down the A11 with three shepherd’s crook-shaped bits of metal sticking up.

Never mind. Everything will be set up soon and I’ll be happily watching flocks of rare avian types descend on the garden. And not, as I fear, flocks over overfed wood pigeons who don’t know when to stop eating (clearly kindred spirits of mine).

Unfortunately, just as my feathered friends become accustomed to the new food source, I’ll be disappearing for a while. I’ve (almost) two weeks’ holidays coming up - starting a week tomorrow, in fact. Plans are only tentative so far - the only word which is almost certainly going to feature is “Tintagel” - although a thought occured to me at work last week.

Splodger and I had been talking about car journeys in the US compared to those in the UK.

“How far is it from Land’s End to John’o'Groats?”, Splodger had asked.

I looked. And the looked again. And once more for luck.

Hmmm. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

More strange spam comments

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Strange, then, that you’ve got a mail.ru email address.

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Interesting stuff, I’m sure you’ll agree.

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It’ll place it first among all economies, won’t it?

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Thank you for sharing that, Mr Spammer. Sorry about the lack of links (or credit).

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² Stop smoking URL deliberately removed
³ Ringtone site URL removed
⁴ Lingerie URL investigated thoroughly, then removed