Peggy's Mundane Thread

Two sons two little one's and the one and only daughter in law for lunch today, before us men (4 males) and the wife off for the big game.

Just watched a load of storks/cranes flying to sunnier climes. Haven't seen very many this year.

Wife and kids were in the Limousin (France) couple of weeks ago and they saw the cranes fly over, thousands of them.

mouldyoldgoat wrote:

Iggy wrote:

The digger driver up the road had just finished levelling about eighty tons of mud and spoil the council took from the hedge bottoms recently, he'd done a really cracking job. Shame he's got to move it now, right across one of my gateways, how FOOKIN thick are some of these people?

Oooooooooooh, how posh!

Lord Iggy of ATD!

Not very grand but it's an entrance to an old quarry I use as a yard and store, digger driver was cool and has made a nice job of tidying it all up, says he didn't notice the gateway.

Late up, got to be on the Hoe by 10.30

Cannot sleep, reading The Sorcerer by Jack Whyte.

Is it keeping you awake? Or are you reading because you cannot sleep?

pepsipete wrote:

Is it keeping you awake? Or are you reading because you cannot sleep?

Is it the cart before the horse.....or the horse before the cart ?

Aardvark_Von_Lipwig wrote:

Just watched a load of storks/cranes flying to sunnier climes. Haven't seen very many this year.

I have recently taken up birdwatching so this is not mundane to me.

pepsipete wrote:

Is it keeping you awake? Or are you reading because you cannot sleep?

Having trouble sleeping for some time,

Devon takes the praise in TheTorquay Herald headlines for the poppies at the Tower
Plymouth in the The Herald

Hire car has arrived. A bleedy Panda.

bjorn_yesterday wrote:

Aardvark_Von_Lipwig wrote:

Just watched a load of storks/cranes flying to sunnier climes. Haven't seen very many this year.

I have recently taken up birdwatching so this is not mundane to me.

Unfortunately Storks and Cranes are very rare it this country. We do have Herons

bjorn_yesterday wrote:

Aardvark_Von_Lipwig wrote:

Just watched a load of storks/cranes flying to sunnier climes. Haven't seen very many this year.

I have recently taken up birdwatching so this is not mundane to me.

I took up birdwatching at puberty.....you a late starter then ?

I think the best birds come from Thailand for us older men to spot
Off to bed now long morning at the hospital, I might dream of a Thai landy

Need to buy some more toothpaste.

Did a big shop this morning, co-op deliver, taxi home.

Tgwu wrote:

I think the best birds come from Thailand for us older men to spot
Off to bed now long morning at the hospital, I might dream of a Thai landy

***casual sexism alert***

Thai women are like a French car. Fine when they're new (young) but after a few years service they deteriorate pretty rapidly and you know its time to trade in for a newer model.

And they seem to be strangely attracted to older, overweight taxi drivers

I am old overweight (never driven a taxi) and on a tight chain by the wife.

Tgwu wrote:

I am old overweight (never driven a taxi) and on a tight chain by the wife.

You kinky old dog

pepsipete wrote:

bjorn_yesterday wrote:

Aardvark_Von_Lipwig wrote:

Just watched a load of storks/cranes flying to sunnier climes. Haven't seen very many this year.

I have recently taken up birdwatching so this is not mundane to me.

Unfortunately Storks and Cranes are very rare it this country.  We do have Herons

Me and my eldest boy saw six cranes on the broads a couple of years ago, bleddy huge.

Traveling on the M5 was hit by a young Stork/Heron on the corner of windscreen, it was still laying in centre reservation on the way back.

I saw a little egret down by Sutton Harbour a few months back. They only arrived in this country a few years ago.

Apparently the one I saw is probably the same one a couple of colleagues have seen at Hooe Lake. I reckon s/he fancied a change of scenery but, finding that half of Sutton Harbour's been taken over by those pathetic great plastic 'yachts' - most of which never go anywhere and when they do you can tell the driver hasn't got a clue about safety on the water - left in disgust.

PS I didn't know it was a little egret when I saw it. It was just an unusual and rather pretty bird amongst the swans and seagulls. The RSPB website's got a brilliant bird identification tool on it.

Iggy wrote:

pepsipete wrote:

bjorn_yesterday wrote:

Aardvark_Von_Lipwig wrote:

Just watched a load of storks/cranes flying to sunnier climes. Haven't seen very many this year.

I have recently taken up birdwatching so this is not mundane to me.

Unfortunately Storks and Cranes are very rare it this country.  We do have Herons

Me and my eldest boy saw six cranes on the broads a couple of years ago, bleddy huge.

If you look out of the train window coming into Waterloo, Charing Cross or Victoria etc.....you'll see hundreds of cranes....some of them with red lights on top...... .