It’s such a small amount that it’s likely more to do with how they’re tagging the sections rather than any actual Finnish heritage.I’m fascinated by the Finnish element. Daughter did hers, and came out 98% UK, probably Lancashire and Yorkshire (no surprises there, that’s where the family all come from) and 2% Finnish! One day OH and I will get ours done, to see which side it’s on (or both!)
It’s such a small amount that it’s likely more to do with how they’re tagging the sections rather than any actual Finnish heritage.
Although it is my brand of choice when it comes to dishwasher tablets so who knows?!
The jackdaws in our garden are eating me out of house and home. Especially the fat balls, the little birds don’t stand a chance. I got a huge shock the other day though. A sparrow was feeding its youngest right outside my back door when a jackdaw with two young with it grabbed the sparrow chick and promptly killed and started tearing it apart and feeding it to its chicks. The jackdaws share the feeders with all the other birds regardless of their size so this was a total surprise. I Googled it and it can happen on occasion especially when raising chicks. They need the extra protein apparently. I felt guilty because I hadn’t filled the fat balls or peanuts up that day. Horrifying. Yet when a sparrowhawk does it I don’t bat an eyelid!Good morning.5.8
Ex-path finished and seeded. Trailer of rubbish delivered to tip. Should have slept like log but sadly awake by 01.30. Read "Whose body" on the principle that an old, well known, book should drop me back to sleep, a ploy which failed. So face what looks like another grey day completely cream-crackered. Have avoided the "big shop" for days and am now reduced to cheese, crackers or children's emergency fish fingers...I haven't even enough flour to make pizza or any pasta (which is fortunate since I am trying to get daily score down)...so I have written my list and prepared myself for a run to Carmarthen. Judging by the dearth in pantry and freezer it will over heat and bend my plastic a bit.
@eggyg Loved the bird pictures. My little lot are facing strong competition from corvids - masses of wretched magpies and even jays accompanied by their funereally clad friends. Waving, whether through window or outside, disperses them to allow the tits, sparrows, finches etc a short go at the fat balls and seed. 50 balls and a bag of seed (£26) doesn't last long once the big guys start on the balls, greedy brutes. I assume the fat must be animal derived as I thought corvids were mostly carnivorous.
Time to feed Mr Wolf - wishing everyone a good day.
Nature innit!The jackdaws in our garden are eating me out of house and home. Especially the fat balls, the little birds don’t stand a chance. I got a huge shock the other day though. A sparrow was feeding its youngest right outside my back door when a jackdaw with two young with it grabbed the sparrow chick and promptly killed and started tearing it apart and feeding it to its chicks. The jackdaws share the feeders with all the other birds regardless of their size so this was a total surprise. I Googled it and it can happen on occasion especially when raising chicks. They need the extra protein apparently. I felt guilty because I hadn’t filled the fat balls or peanuts up that day. Horrifying. Yet when a sparrowhawk does it I don’t bat an eyelid!
If you have swallows nesting watch out at fledging time - the ruddy magpies kill the chicks then - nice and big but easy to catch. Cleared my swallows out of the barn in 2022 and I have been without any since.The jackdaws in our garden are eating me out of house and home. Especially the fat balls, the little birds don’t stand a chance. I got a huge shock the other day though. A sparrow was feeding its youngest right outside my back door when a jackdaw with two young with it grabbed the sparrow chick and promptly killed and started tearing it apart and feeding it to its chicks. The jackdaws share the feeders with all the other birds regardless of their size so this was a total surprise. I Googled it and it can happen on occasion especially when raising chicks. They need the extra protein apparently. I felt guilty because I hadn’t filled the fat balls or peanuts up that day. Horrifying. Yet when a sparrowhawk does it I don’t bat an eyelid!
Fingers crossed that won’t happen, our swallows tuck theirselves under an archway and arrive here without fail around about 27th April every year since we moved here in 1986.If you have swallows nesting watch out at fledging time - the ruddy magpies kill the chicks then - nice and big but easy to catch. Cleared my swallows out of the barn in 2022 and I have been without any since.
Good morning. 5.8
Yesterday managed a 2nd tip run, hedge clippings and cardboard, as well as a mammoth shop. I'll be needing anther tip run soon as the path behind the pond is totally occluded by overgrown shrubs. Gauntlets on, secateurs in hand, cleared about 3ft and over filled large barrow. The day had started quite cool but was, by then, sweltering so I gave in to baser instincts and sat down - to wake 2 hours later. What is it about age that induces sleep during the day and insomnia at night?
Postal vote forms delivered yesterday. I shall miss pottering down to the old school to make my mark but without any photo ID I have no option. Determined to get young Ben Lake back into the House, a task made less easy post-boundary changes. Pembs is notoriously Tory but the changes have only incorporated the Northern part which is more Welsh speaking so, hopefully, some Plaid supporters. Ben is very young, an energetic and effective constituency MP, no Etonian but a local state school boy, son of a local policeman. Just what we need to represent us. I await my large placard for the gate with almost the same enthusiasm as I scan the post for mail from the DVLA but no sign of that as yet.
Hope everyone has a good day.