The early morning mist is just clearing form our valley and i managed to snap a pic of it a few minutes ago
It can sometimes fill the valley to the roof top levels and looks very eerie hiding the valley floor detail.
Our pond plants have grown wonderfully since we cut them back in March. Then they looked like this
Today we have a fine show of lilies and the other plants are enormous. The next show will be the bullrushes on the far right.
A tragic story with a happy ending - - for a change. A pair of twins in china were reunited after being parted for 41 years by chance a friend of one of the twins saw the other twin in a city 200km from the first one. Now there were 1.34 billion people in China in 2011 but the first twin travelled to the city of 4 million people and was reunited with his twin. They were put up for adoption soon after birth because of the parents poverty. The story doesn't end there though, once reunited they tracked down their estranged mother as well!
A near tragic tale is covered by Sky News, teen mauled while trying to kiss captive lion Being a wrinkly and having seen this type of thing before I cannot imagine why anyone would want to kiss a caged lion! Wild animals will never be anything other than wild. Even domestic animals can give you a reminder where they came from! Try giving a cat a pill it doesn't want!
The logging is going apace and its a "splitting the cheeses" operation just now on the final piece of the trunk of the big tree I dropped. Its probably the most strenuous bit of the work as it entails chainsawing about a foot off the end of the trunk and smashing it into firewood
Here's one with the 8 pound "maul" leaning up against it. The "maul" is a kind of blunt axe which due to its weight splits the wood where an axe would just bury itself in the top of the wood (shades of Charles Bronson splitting the wood in the movie "The Magnificent Seven") The first split can take anything up to 8 or 10 blows, after that unless there are large knots its just a case of hitting it in the correct place.
I'll be cracking a few this morning before Sally joins me to transport some of the firewood up to our stash on the hard top track, such a nice day for it!
Yesterday I visited my old Army friend "Bulmer" in Hereford to chat over some points for my book. The journey down and back was the usual Friday mess of traffic jams and senseless roadworks with miles of traffic cones and not a worker in sight. We had a good couple of sessions though with a visit to a local pub where a lot of the "old timers" meet up for coffee on a Friday.
I saw a number of blokes from my era and, as you do, we chatted on as if we see each other every day. One guy was showing a pic around that i sent him on an e mail ages ago, he's the one on the left in the pic below
We were in the Oman at the end of what was described back in the UK newspapers as "The Secret War". This is 1976 and we were really just doing civil aid stuff before the real government sponsored organisations got going. This old boy had burned his hand and spread tomato puree on it! The guy on the right is one of a number of Fijians who were in the regiment at the time. Ah the good old days! lol
Our "screen" at the bottom of the garden is now complete with the door hanging having gone well. It is rather nice to sit in there without the huge expanse around us as we had before
There's a brass plate on the door with the message, "Time spent in this garden is not deducted from your life!" The idea is to continue the screen up the garden although another project needs to be completed first, details anon - - -
Finally - - - There has been a groundswell, well half a dozen comments about the birdfeeder webcam view. Yes everyone can see the squirrel on the top rail and the birds as well. It appears though that others like the view down the garden and across the valley with the odd view of "us" wandering aimlessly around the garden. I shall remedy that this afternoon and hopefully give everyone an even better view!
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