WHAT’S PINCHING MY NUTS (22/10/10)

I hope that got your attention……..I’m in trouble….. No pictures.

I took the cab into town as there is only so much porridge, tuna, rice and couscous I can stand. I also had a parcel to post, the value of it’s content being about a third of what it has cost to despatch it.

Looking out from the van window…my hide…… I have been putting nuts down in a couple of locations with a nice backdrop. Three things I want, some definitive pictures of, a Red Squirrel, a Jay, a Magpie and what do I get ……the fattest Wood Pigeon in England and it crawled, belly dragging, behind some autumnal Docks…….Not lost my sense of humour…. Entirely……..the docks are dead really but so are the leaves I Oooo and Arghhh about.

(I’m into the second kilo of nuts and am a little worried as they feed the birds here but as far as I know not after the first of November when the site closes.)

Kewick is a town overwhelmed by it’s location. There are some excellent shops selling outdoor clothing but for every one there are three or four rip off merchants selling tat. I find it confusing, I really need a new pair of winter walking trousers but when faced with a range in price from twenty pounds to near two hundred the purchase becomes a chore not worth pursuing.

Into Booths an excellent supermarket, prices a bit steep for a Yorkshireman but quality is what matters, venison tonight, chicken tomorrow, and chicken liver as a warm pate Sunday.

I’ll post some pictures whilst I await the elusive birds and squirrels. Just got the Magpie bum on.

   If I spread my wings I know I’ll crash, I wish birds could burp….daft beggar putting all those nuts down at once! The thief….the Wood Pigeon.

    Bit dark for our constitutional dad……Just get on with it…………..I’ve to go to Keswick.

Go I did as you know. The Market Hall, Court, Prison it’s been a few things but is now the tourist information centre. It is also a bit of a fake as most of it was reclaimed from an island in Derwentwater……that sort of place is Keswick.

That sort of place is the Lake District we now have kids on scooters and mothers and fathers, so we can forget the wild life pictures…………..Could perhaps shoot snaps of the parents………Nah! Not pretty enough. Here to finish off is the Magpie.

       Stealer of my nuts. Along with the pigeon…..little devils!

Just one of those days…………………….Have a wonderful weekend…….we will and if we have to suffer this weekend then I just hope it rains and pours and torrents on the noisy beggars next door.