Damn the cold…..

Awake all night again, looked outside around eight this morning and everything was white over again, outside temp’ a chilly minus 5F….

Got my first proper gas and electricity bills for this place on saturday lunchtime…. not nice, gas is the worse one with it being gas central heating and water heating, I could do with a soak in the bath but now not sure I can afford the luxury, time to make some cutbacks I guess, no more treats, no more booze…..

Things are looking up with the birds, seems to be getting a lot busier recently with the continuing cold weather, taking a que from Daffy I’ve listed the ‘visitors’…..

Robins – x2
Great Tits – Numerous
Long Tailed Tits – x4+
Coal Tits – Numerous
Blue Tits – x4-6 usually
Green Finches – Numerous
Wrens – x2
Assorted Sparrows – Numerous
Dunnocks – X1 or 2…. Hard to tell as they hide so well !
Wood Pigeons – Numerous fat ones…. LOL
Collared Doves – x6+
Blackbirds – Numerous
Thrush – x1 so far, good for getting rid of snails!!
Starlings – Numerous…. noisy, greedy little buggers!
Crows – Were numerous until I stopped using ‘tray’ feeders

No doubt there’s some I’ve missed but thats the list of regular sightings!

Time to make a coffee and go chat to the lovely Dee on msn messenger…..

SeeYa…….

 

Me No Likee…..

Six O’clock this morning, I’d been awake most of the night….. went into the kitchen to make a coffee, grab some painkillers and refill the biscuit barrel and just happened to glance outside…..
White over and thick fog…… came back and checked the weather station, minus 7F outside, that was the last reading before the battery in the sensor died or froze!
Coffee, a few dunked digestives, pills and a peruse of them Mad Hatter type folks, then back to my nice warm cosy bed…… until just after 4pm
Its now 8pm, I’m gonna be wide awake all night and I must go shopping tomorrow….. so what the hell can I do until 10am tomorrow when I head for the bus stop??
[Suggestions on an unopened bottle of decent beer please...]

 

Saturday……

Well, its all over for another year, and to be honest I’m more than happy its finished, both christmas and new year were spent alone here, no place to go, no invites and no way of getting there anyway…. just the TV and computer for company, having the ‘flu ‘helped’ I guess as most of the time was spent in bed asleep, one of my favourite places indeed !

I’ve done my daily check of friends blogs but not many have updated for quite a while…. family, busy lives etc no doubt the reason… still, I’ll keep checking just for something to do….

I’m presently awaiting a freecycler, this time bringing me something, not collecting, for some reason, despite working perfectly in the old place, my TV now refuses to ’see’ the video, most of the good stuff I have is now on DVD but I still have quite a few video’s I’d like to watch, I was given a portable a long time ago but its sans scart socket, the freecycler coming today is bringing me a TV with a scart so hopefully later it’ll be settle down and watch some videos…..

Right, time for coffee number three and a few ‘dunked’ digestives….
Seeya !!