Kitchen Garden Forum

Could do with some of those sea breezes here today!
At least we,re saving money by not needing the central heating yet.

I've had the chimney swept ready for winter, got some wood to cut up, mostly small stuff for kindling.

My wife took this one by tigerburnie, on Flickr

We,ll all be descending on you for a warm when the winter power cuts come! Must seem a bit odd chopping wood for stoves in a heat wave but perhaps not so hot where you are ? Hard to sleep thiugh on such sultry nights.

It was 26 degrees yesterday and we have 16 at present, I pick my jobs to avoid the hottest part of the day and break the jobs down into smaller segments, yesterday the two of us treated the big summer house with oil based wood preservative, we were finished before eleven, so not too hot. Rain is forecast for next week, so doing those jobs now that need doing outside, try to do a couple of jobs a week so they don't add up, wood chopping will be done later in the month if it cools down.

Kingfisher by tigerburnie, on Flickr

Click on the screen to watch a short film, no sound on this one

Fabulous…..
I have only ever seen one Kingfisher and that was at one of the Woburn Abbey lakes….

There is something compelling about watching a kingfisher! I've only ever saw a flash of one years ago when we took a canal boat holiday. Except this moment it was not too much fun, I fell off the boat tripping over the ropes, then told after I had symptoms of whatever was polluting the canal you were supposed to go to hospital for antibiotics. The dog was anchored to a wee table at the back & managed to pull the table out of it's fixings & then with same dog in tow going for a pub lunch through a church yard shortcut got surrounded by cows very unhappy about her presence! We cut that holiday short, I did finally get antibiotics on return & was fine but not a pleasant journey home.

That doesn't sound like a relaxing holiday!

A short video from our local bird hide, no sound on this folk chatting in the hide.. just click on the link
Winday day at Montrose by tigerburnie, on Flickr