Two reasons to be cheerful today:~

Firstly: My tits are back!!

A few weeks ago I put mixed bird seed in the feeder and since then, not a sight of a tit. Yesterday I put just sunflower seeds in another feeder and suddenly the tits are back!

I managed to get a great closeup view of a very harrassed looking blue tit as she hopped along the windowsill looking for insects in the shrubbery below, a mere 2ft from where I was standing. Had there not been glass in the way, I could have touched her. I see now that they have nested in next door's privet tree and by the sound of it, they've procreated again. The great tits are also nesting nearby so the sunflower seeds are a much needed supplement. Where the coal tits went is anyone's guess, but they're around here somewhere.

And secondly, today should see the arrival of our new garden table, a tasteful wrought iron and wooden thing, big enough to put a meal on. The arrival of this means that I have FINALLY cleared all the crap and rubble from the garden. It's only taken 9 years, 3 spoil heaps, countless rubble sacks, 8 bonfires and 6 parties to do it!

Now I'm off to get the bag of horse manure out of the car before Manitas finds out about it!

LTS