Threatened Drought
Well, the weather doesn’t seem to be improving! It’s been raining, but apparently not enough to help alleviate the threatened drought! And it’s cold! So much for British Summer Time! And the Brits obsession with the weather!
Dawn Chorus
It was precisely 4 a.m. this morning when the blackbird stuck up with his beautiful song, a sign to all the feathered community that it was time to rise! Luckily the human habitation managed to get back to sleep! That’s a bit too early even for me! I don’t have to get cracking and find worms, insects and sunflower seeds for my growing family! Just bacon and eggs for my LTA (long term attachment)!
Feeding the Birds
My bird platform and the surrounding area have been alive with our feathered friends. Young blue tits have been hanging upside down on the peanut feeder, greenfinches, blue tits, great tits, greenfinches and even the sparrows are consuming vast amounts of sunflower seeds from another feeder. The woodpecker (whom I have to say is very shy!) can be heard ‘click, clicking’ away in the early morning as he visits the peanuts, while a variety of pigeons, blackbirds, robins, chaffinches and the odd magpie feed from the ground, usually taking their little feathered lives in their beaks when Scully the cat is around! She has taken to sitting underneath the bird platform for long periods, just in case! I think I’m doing my bit for conservation!
Black Hole
I read this morning that a black hole has been seen shredding and gobbling up a star 3.8bn light years away! And, it could happen in our galaxy! Maybe we’ll wake up one morning and find our star has been gobbled up! Oh dear, no more sunbathing!
Light Years
I have trouble understanding the concept of ‘light years’. One of my dear family explained it to me as ‘ripples in a pool’. It’s still difficult to absorb by someone who only did basic science at Secondary School! (Many years ago!!) I seem to remember that water is H2O!
Heaven
I recently had a lengthy discussion on the doorstep with members of a certain religious group, who call from time to time hoping to convert and save a wretched country bumpkin from a fate worse than death, about Heaven! I asked them where it was, because it certainly isn’t ‘up there’ where all this star stuff takes place!! I think they were quite surprised to find someone actually wanted to talk to them. What they didn’t realise was I hadn’t seen anyone to talk to for a few days! Social interaction withdrawal symptoms! Bet they won’t call again!
Thanks for your time! Speak soon!
The Bumpkin Rambler xx
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