It was another day of keeping the weight off my foot…which means I worked on Mirinda’s spreadsheet for most of it. I had a couple of breaks away from the screen.
Firstly a chap from a tree felling mob called around to give a diagnosis of our hornbeam. It has a lot of odd growths on it which may (or may not) be fatal. Although, to be fair, it grows like a mad thing so it’s probably a good thing it’s diseased.
His initial response was that it was actually not a hornbeam but a pussy willow. Suddenly my demeanour changed. I was quite precious when I thought it was a hornbeam and considered losing it. A willow? I don’t really care. Anyway, he had no idea what the warty growths were and took a photo to look it up back at the office.
He was also there to comment on lots of other felling business like giving us a quote to remove the horrid hedge which I, more or less, devastated last week. He is sending us a quote as well as advice on the pussy willow pox.
My second spreadsheet break came when I took the poodles for a walk up to the castle and back. There were a lot of dogs about, which the girls were not that keen on but generally they were well behaved. I didn’t get any photos of dogs but today I saw another buzzard (or the same buzzard only closer).
Magnificent buzzard
He was flying towards me up high and I started snapping off photos at it and it just kept getting closer. It actually flew directly over me, coming quite low. At one point I thought it was going to swoop down and take one of the poodles.
So, that was my day. I’m off to work tomorrow so I’m hoping my foot will be able to take the strain having not really had to do anything for the last two days.
Spotted hiding behind a tree - cheeky bugger
What a beautiful picture of a Buzzard the colours are wonderful and love the cheeky bugger Squirrel.
love mum
Two fabulous wildlife shots. I mentioned the buzzard in my French essay this week – le buse. But my french teacher had never heard of one – in english or in french!