Yurp we too have an Owl, never seen him/her but we do hear it calling to another one.I know you were talking about electric fence. Its the way to go for not much money.
Do you neighbor's grown anything? the reason I ask is if they cant get yours they will go to theirs.
So maybe split the cost and get a good solar powered 1 that will cover the line. They are not expensive.
Maybe allow them into your bramblly area they may sort it for you
Wildlife live their lives if its tasty they are gonna have it if its easy prey, sorry mate but true
I have sat outside last couple of nights as its getting dark.
Mother Owl is talking to baby Owls and they are all chatting together in the oak trees. Then Mum appears in the pine, calling. Then if I am lucky I get to see them fly to the pines. Its the time of year for flying lessons
They can eat as many of our homegrown mice as they like
J
We don't have neighbours who grow anything. One side is our field which is wild, tother was wild until a few months ago when the new neighbours moved in and started cutting the undergrowth back , well a bit, it's a monumental job. Our brambly area isn't so brambly since we had it cut back and I am trying to keep it down as we want to sell it!
We think the deer are coming in from their land, at the bottom where there is a gap in the tree hedge we planted. Have yet to see them even jump the fence onto our other bit of land, and the bottom is undergrowth and trees while the top is fenced and beside a road.
I think we'll put up a barbed wire fence , not just a mesh one, where the gap is and if that don't work we'll go for the electric number.
But we don't know what we'll do in the winter 6 months when we aren't here. Maybe there will be some way of keeping the electric fence going. Know nothing about them TBH. Like the idea of solar, but don't know where we'd mount the panel as the fence line is so high it blocks the sunlight right out!
Thanks for the info mate!
Fuundy bolden lidenin...
Tratter day then.
Tratter day then.
Mornin' all, twas a long day yesterday. I am considering a re-retire shortly
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Nope. Eye fort eye would travel by train instead. The one day eye does it they're closed. Eye has over 50 litres left.You run out of diesel? Lost yer bus pass?
And another lovely day is here but we are told to expect some showers later in the afternoon - and for the next five days.
Make the most of the nice weather folks as it seems to be 'on the change' now.
Make the most of the nice weather folks as it seems to be 'on the change' now.
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Din't get round to weeding to fill me bin so eye put me mower on high and gorrim to chop up the top bit. Then eye cut back some branches on me tree's un bushes so they all havva chance at seeing the sun. A bobbin shot oot the bush. The eye pulled more weeds oot the drive. Then eye hacked away at me naybors bush. Finished at 11pm int dark.
Got an unprompted wave from an attractive young lady in a new Defender on the way to work.
Which was nice
Which was nice
Weather Ok here today but rain "promised" so will be processing the load of blackcurrants we picked yessdi.
Have a nice day folks!
Have a nice day folks!
You sure it wasn't two fingers??Got an unprompted wave from an attractive young lady in a new Defender on the way to work.
Which was nice
hope you are all having a great day
hope you are all having a great day
Nope, is dead ere an I is a tad bored
It's raining real rain 'ere, none of your piddly drizzle. The garden's lovin' it.
I ended up working from home as I have had better days!
Broke a big measuring jug, a muslin bag thing split when I was squeezing it to get juice from crushed blackcurrants. The split happened to be pointing straight at me so you can guess the mess and the need to change my shorts.
Then Wifey had given me sugar to out in the mix.
Trusting her completely, as I always do, I open the pouring device and started pouring. After looking at what was going into the pan I stopped and checked the label on the funny plassy container. Twasn't sugar twas feckin flour with raising agent in it!!!
This was after flipping hours of faffing around with blackcurrants, sorting, pulling stalks off then putting them through a liquidiser (which didn't work unless I put enough red wine with it), then straining it through a sieve which meant pouring the gunk in then shoving it around with a spoon until most of the juice came out.
I thought all my hard work had gone up the spout but Wifey flew to the rescue and scraped out the flour which, admittedly hadn't all dissolved into it. But it is wheat flour so dunno if Wifey will eventually be able to drink the Creme de Cassis. Hopefully it'll be down to "trace" which she can stand.
Discovered we don't have enough lemons for her to use for the jam and I don't have quite enough vodka to be able to finish off the Creme. So it'll wait until after shopping tomoz.
Has it rained here as promised?
Has it feck!
So mixed day, but largely still on course.
Hope you all had a good day and are looking forward to the evening.
Then Wifey had given me sugar to out in the mix.
Trusting her completely, as I always do, I open the pouring device and started pouring. After looking at what was going into the pan I stopped and checked the label on the funny plassy container. Twasn't sugar twas feckin flour with raising agent in it!!!
This was after flipping hours of faffing around with blackcurrants, sorting, pulling stalks off then putting them through a liquidiser (which didn't work unless I put enough red wine with it), then straining it through a sieve which meant pouring the gunk in then shoving it around with a spoon until most of the juice came out.
I thought all my hard work had gone up the spout but Wifey flew to the rescue and scraped out the flour which, admittedly hadn't all dissolved into it. But it is wheat flour so dunno if Wifey will eventually be able to drink the Creme de Cassis. Hopefully it'll be down to "trace" which she can stand.
Discovered we don't have enough lemons for her to use for the jam and I don't have quite enough vodka to be able to finish off the Creme. So it'll wait until after shopping tomoz.
Has it rained here as promised?
Has it feck!
So mixed day, but largely still on course.
Hope you all had a good day and are looking forward to the evening.
