Our first holliday.

A selection of old 35mm slides that I have scanned onto the computer,they include Forth Bridges, Pitlochry Hydro/fishpass,Glengoulandie deer park (where we stayed)Gen Wades Bridge,The falls of Dochart, Commando monument at Spean Bridge and other views.

I say these Byethost guys are super slick, came onto me blog this morning to find everything is superfast  I had been warned it was going to take place shortly.It would appear that they have added more Mysql Servers to my cluster,and ( I never felt a thing) real good Web Surgeons these guys.

Good news the other day when Angela rang us to say that she had just passed her driving test (well done) that will make life a lot easier for Dan when the firm that Angelas working for moves to the Cobalt business park , ya under ya own steam now girl.

Yes thats right at their age as well, andI got this E mail from me mate Mot to say that they were over in the lake district staying at their friend Jills house for a dirty weekend, incidently Jills a very talented lady doing china painting, glass-craft, and watercolours she also has her own website and gallery,you can get a link to Jills site by clicking on Mots blog I hope your both having a great time even though you said the weather was filthy dirty (oops I wonder if thats what he meant ?).

Once Carol starts digging she never stops, it’s her Ancestry now( a murky past I must admit ). It would appear that she has connections dating back to the Border Reivers and they were rustlers thieves and murderers ( I’m sleeping with one eye open from now on ).It must be catching this Ancestry business because Bruce and Patti are at it and its now rubbed of on me ( where will this lead I wonder ? ).

New Feeder
Bought some Nijer seed the other day to see if i could atract more finches into the garden but i had to make a new feeder to take it as it is very tiny seed.It seems to be working as I am now getting a few Goldfinches having a go as you can see.

New Find
My mate Bob has been out and about again managing to locate a nature reserve at Clara Vale, chilly as it was he stuck it out and managed to come up with some good results as you can see ( note the Blackbird with the white patch and ring on its leg).

Ingredients

1 tablespoon of oil
1 onion
1 red pepper
1 teaspoon garlic puree
1 potato
2 tablespoons of flour
1 chicken stock cube
1 pint water
½ pint milk
2 oz broccoli
1 10½ can of sweet-corn

Method

Heat oil in large pan and sauté diced onion, garlic, red pepper and potato for 2-3 minutes over a low heat stirring frequently. Stir in flour and cook for 30 seconds. Add stock cube, water and milk simmer for 10 minutes stirring occasionally. Add broccoli and sweet-corn and cook a further 10 minutes.

Serves 4.

I Did a bit of name searching on the net the other day and came up with this , it’s the Lister coat of arms or crest if you like.Apparentley the name is thought to have originated in Yorkshire before Hastings 1066 and all that, also pre Norman Conquest so it looks like we go back a fair way . I found two sites (USA) with one very slight difference in the crests but both had different Latin words on, its not easy to get photo’s as you have to pay lots of $ for them, but I cheated and photographed the monitor and came up with this after a bit of work in Picasa.

Feeder Frenzy

Lots of activity on my garden feeders today,nice to see a few Tree sparrows calling in. I think I am keeping a whole flock of Starlings going with my homemade lardy-seed bread. A walk down the dene to top up the two feeding stations with seed and crumb was productive with a gang of long-tailed tits flitting about in front, then we had a buzzard overhead quite a while since I’ve seen one around here. Carol and I spent quite some time watching the Nuthatches coming down to the feeders then flying off to nearby trees and depositing the seeds in behind the bark or in cracks (hope they have a better memory than me ).