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In the song Goodbyee Nan would sing, "Though it's hard to part I know, I'll,,,,be......tittled ta death ta go" And in Stop Your Tickling Jock, she sang "stop yer tittle in tittle little little in, "

Robin gave me a present of a worm yesterday, I was touched. Does he think I am a big robin? We thought they might be nesting in the ivy by the window as twice before or they could be after spiders in it and in the jasmine and under the window frames as lots of the birds are, does that mean...

Nan used to get an attack of the agues too. The hot and cold shivers, my mate used to say the hotaches. Mum said the heebiejeebies but that was when she was scared.

Yow'll be the death 'o me. Nan wore a very long sleevless vest, tucked in, 'to keep me neck warm' she said with irony.

Plopped ham with chalk

I posted this before but.....'er fairse 'ud stop a clock. Mardy pants, and mardy britches. In the Cov playground I used to hear mardy @rse. At work titty la la. Apparantly means a bit of a wimp or a cry baby. I loved, spittin' feathers. and cussin' . If nan saw a sailor, 'the fleet's in!'

Posh ex colleague from Leek Wooton said "if my mum saw that she's have a blue fit.".

Nan would say, arm a coomin now, in a minit. Brummie auntie said back in half a bit, and mum, in half a tick.

The now, bit is interesting, I noted in Cumbria they ad 'now' to phrases, there you go now, My Dublin friend's mum when giving us our dinner would say now Bob, now Nico as she handed us the plates.

You can't. But we have a lot of cover which helps them like ivy and creepers. There are also ball feeders which might protect them a bit. I have seen lampshade frame draped over nest boxes. We saw some savvy birds using one in Shropshire, Quite a big domed wire feeder. We saw a hawk on top of...

I can't believe the petunias survived the winter, we will wait and see if they flower. We also have self seeded forgetmenots in the same barrel, they keep coming and flowering when they shouldn't, we just thin them out as they provide some colour. I have always pruned roses in October ish, my...

Spring is sprung the grass is riz, Well ours hasn't it's getting baldier and baldier under the plum tree, maybe roots? I am going to try and hack some in the border that send shoots up, they could be plum, bird cherry or wayfaring tree, which has died above the ground.

Wish I could view these I can see Strawberry Hunter's pictures.

The robin is still feeding in the garage in his personal saucer, He appears to come in and feed just to please me. I have raised one of the fat feeders as the cats have had go at what looks like a blackbird, fluffy black feathers everywhere.

We have both, glazed and plastic and metal beer barrells, I painted the plastic pots to look like ceramic then varnish them. I use left over paint varnish and wood stain. I experiment, I can't life the stone pots any more. Hope you feel better soon Strawbs.

I put ours in the garage under some loose plastic sheet I cant believe the petunias survived outside

I was told that why we still sometimes see old derelict garages boarded off is that the sites are toxic for years later? There is one here used to have the small old fashioned round edged pumps, Never been built on.

Primulas coming out and crocus, snowdrops, some daffs not the ancient ones, pigeons nesting. Blackbirds are picking the moss off the corrugated garage roof. They have really tuned it over and chucked it on the yard. The roof has started to leak so we don't know if the most protects or damages...

The robins are now coming in to the garage every day when I get the bird food out. So I am leaving some extra in a small dish for when I am not there and they just nip in if I am late and take some. I even get a brush of their wings on my coat or hat or shoulder, like they do it on purpose? I...

We saw a black woodpecker in France. It has a bright red crest and mournful cry like a gibbon. It was that we heard first. They may be red under the rump but he was upright. Going up a tree. I noted their wrens are bigger. Now she was surprisingly tame. Nesting on the balcony in the gap between...