Squirrels just love LEGO, don'cha know!!

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Hi all and what an awful few days of weather we’ve had and by all accounts, will continue to have for a few days or so more…..JOY!!

Well, on the advice of one Mrs Bscott, a few days ago, I ventured out this morning when Ali had gone to her morning shift. BS had advised me to give my lavenders a slight haircut and that is just what I did. Hopefully they will come back even more bountiful next year!

This is what my Butterfly lavender looked like before it had a trim….

….and this was the last remaining flower on my Blueberries & Cream after that had a trim…

So, I hear you cry, what was the real reason for venturing out on such a gloomy, dank and dismal day? Well, I shall begin…..

Some of you may knoiw we have a squirrel feeder on the edge of the garage just near the bottom gate. Nutty has sussed it and it now appears a recent addition – juvenile – has also sussed it too. The problem lies in that you have to fill the feeder so the squirrels can reach and then when they get about halfway down, they can’t reach and if you forget to fill the nuts for a while, the remainder turn mouldy and I end up throwing them away which is not good for the squiggs nor is it good on my pocket!

I have been racking my brain as to what I can do to stop wasting so many nuts and not spend too much cash in the process. Well, today, I went out and filled the bird feeders up and emptied the squigg box, still not knowing what I could do to solve the issue. On going back indoors to clean the clear perspex front to the feeder, I happened to pass this:

TerrorJACdyl’s lego box in the conservatory

Hmmmm, I thought, I wonder? So, armed with this…..

Ali’s unusal measuring contraption

I went back to this….

Said squirrel feeder…..cleaned out

…..and began to take some measurements.

Now, I know what you’re all thinking and NO…….I didn’t have a pasty for lunch!

’What’s that got to do with squirrels and lego?’

Absolutely nowt but just checking you’re awake! For the record, i didn’t have any lunch…..well, a packet of Hula Hoops but hardly top cuisine is it!!

Back to the matter in hand. I thought I could maybe construct – ark at me, sound like Robert Mcalpine now! – a small platform out of Jac’s lego that I could place behind the perspex and have half the amount of nuts resting on top of it. SO, this was my first attempt….

You can see that the legs stick out slightly at the bottom and this meant it didn’t quite fit so……..

I turned the legs to face in…..HEY PRESTO!

A few minor adjustments and in it went…..

So, now the moment of truth. Will it work?

Well, you judge….

Someone seems content with the result anyway and was eating from it not long after I took this pic….

Of course, some people were more interested in their lunch than checking out my amazing, hi-tech contraption…..

But of course, I knew I could always rely on me old mate to join me in the garden….

So, problem solved, I had a little wander down to our little pond and found these 2 broken branches…..

Which I guess must have snapped off this next door…..

The Mighty Oak!

Guess we got off very lightly compared to many of you around the country. On that note, I do hope you are all safe and warm as it’s not nice to go through all that type of thing.

Anyway, as I had filled the fatball up earlier, it was QUITE OBVIOUS that the local starlings clan would soon be about…..

‘Oy, I’m watching you shorty!’

‘Hey Ted, I’ll keep a look out for any sparrers in the area…..’

‘I can’t believe he hasn’t seen me…….’

BOO!!!

‘Keep off our Manor ya big jessy starling….!’

The wind was starting to pick up a bit which pleased Windy Moo-Cow no end……

So, camera in hand, I took a few last shots of my comapnions before venturing indoors…..

So to finish, can you see any birds in the Mighty Oak?

And how was your day?

• 15 Nov, 2009
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