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I had to look him up, I am maybe more Monty Don or Percy Chucker as my uncle called him. Partner can't bear Mr Titchmarsh. She likes a mature lady.Lyn? I shelled the broad beans but we don't know if they are safe to eat as they just appeared. So we have left them for the birdies and beasties.

Beautiful. We have wild ones but they don't smell

I make up for this.

Very pretty. So is the borage that appeared this year and the broad beans. The no seed bird food keeps seeding with corn. We have some new flowers but I will have to see when they open as to what they might be. Might be musk mallow very feathery leaves. I had to get the magnifying glass out for...

I remember them coming and asking my mum for a request. One of her renal nurses used to sing all the time.

We get goldfinches these past 3 years or so, quite a few don't know why,. no more chaffinches or greenfinches. Old Next door used to have an aviary which attracted wild birds including sparrow hawks. I went for a walk and I noted more than 3/4 of the front gardens are all covered in some shape...

Wonderful. I can remember the naughty playground rhyme, going off topic. Walking in the jungle got the belly ache etc. On topic could hospital radio operators plays what they wanted?

Is down in the jungle something stirred, different? That has flashed in my mind, dad used to whisper it to me. But he didn't carry it on!

Our friends met through hospital radio, in Coventry, he was operating it, she was a volunteer and they got married.

Relations in Canada get in their gardens blue jays, cardinals and black squirrels. Coyotes, foxes white tailed deer. One says they had cougars and bears, another said that's rubbish, they did agree on the wolves, & racooons under the decking, wolves under a house on stilts,. Depends where they...

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Any ideas Richard, it is not his partner's little shitzu, she isn't allowed in the junk yard part.? Or the shitzu Badger friend also gets muntjac and foxes in her garden. She feeds everything including rats. We get holes dug sometimes, squirrel size holes or fox dug holes, small, in the...

Coventry suburb. I am wondering if we have badgers or maybe foxes are very strong? Our barmy neighbour built an ugly 8ft fence some time ago with the bad side on our side. He left a gap of 6 inches rising to 2 feet underneath. He has made a junk yard about 20 ft by 15 feet in part of it, hidden...

Baby birds are still alive I think there are four now, blackbirds, one hen feeds one that we can see cock feeds two and he feeds one out of sight. Baby robin too. Not as many birtds this year or butterflies. We have had work done outside twice it has put them off a bit. And 5 cats who visit...

Our wildlife I mean, we don;t have badgers, we do have birds foxes mice and squirrels and bats.

Oh dear, it just contains wholemeal flour and no added sugar made for toasting.. Won't feed anymore. We have 2 bird boxes up, squirrels broke the feeder have it on an upturned pot for now. Mate is giving me his late parents' bird bath as he is moving to Brum. in a flat. Partner had some hammer...

Just got back, phew! Brought some bread I might be able to eat. I have problems. Partner crumbled some for our blackbirds, they have taken it to feed their babies. ! Partner's mum used to get black woodpeckers in her garden with mournful cry almost gibbon like. No Hoopoes.

Do you find French birds less tame? We found ours won't eat the baguettes we used to bring back and vice versa. I wondered if it is because they eat songbirds.

I remember there used to be a slaughterhouse in Coventry not sure how far back but when I was working maybe on my 20's or 30's they would hit the press when they escaped. One bullock or cow jumped over the bonnet of the patrol car trying to block its exit and bashed it in, They were always...

Incidentally, (for things that I have never properly addressed in my own case) do any fellow babies and Mothers from the Lahai Roi recall, or recall their birth mothers mentioning a Miss Young? She would have been involved meeting the prospective birth parents and Nurse Green or any of the...