After two bitterly cold days today feels positively tropical with temps hitting 50f that's around 10 in new money.
The sun is shining from a cloudless sky so a stroll over to town for my delayed shopping trip.I had a gander round Home Bargains and was pleased to find they seemed to stock the sort of things I buy at good prices. They even have ranges new to me which I will be trying out in the coming weeks.
The morning was warm enough to discard my big coat and don a lighter one plus I removed my fleece,wonderful stuff I don't suppose it will last.
On my return I sat with a coffee plotting my day and spied a Magpie tucking into the fat balls on the feeder.I don't encourage Magpies because although they are pretty birds they do bully the smaller ones.
After a coffee I decided it was time to put my experiment into action.I have seeds for a cornflower meadow,which is 80% grass 20% seeds so I bulked the seed content up with a lot of the seeds I saved last year such as poppies and anything else I thought might take.This has put the levels up to around 60-40 which isn't bad.I scraped along the back borders and the area that was a wild flower patch a couple of years ago and broadcast the seeds.I watered them in and left them to it. I decided that turning the ground over and preparing it was a waste of time after last years disaster with the cats digging latrines all over the place. It's up to Mother Nature now and we all know she can be a toughie to deal with,I just hope she is in a better mood this year.
As I was saying goodnight to Jenny last night I spotted a full moon in a clear sky so took a couple of shots at different zoom settings,they are not perfect but considering I took them without a tripod but just hand held they turned out not bad.
Ellen is working until 5 today so I have a cottage pie prepared and ready for the oven for when I feel hunger pangs,cottage pie reheats well so Ellen can have hers whenever.
Time for a sit in the garden before I do that and then a catch up on here.Catch you soon
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Nice you could get out and about. Magpie are OK here because they balance things and are wonderful at chasing the neighborhood moggies away, their cousins, Rook, Crow, Jackdaw and Jay are all regulars here for their morning feast of worms etc from the grass, they seldom bother with the feeders.
I did not see the Moon, your photos are good.
Enjoy your evening.
How you've managed to take that photo of the moon without a tripod is amazing. Well done you. I'll have a look at the moon tonight if I can.
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