Catkin Caterpillar

I don't know whether I like this pic or not, never seen anything like that before lol.

Are these late this year?
We usually get masses of green ones from the oak trees

Now those I know, and when we were at our other house Sticki...we watched one day while hundreds of them were leaving the Oak nest, and coming down to earth on something like gossamer threads...needless to say OH dispatched them very quickly...

Too many to dispatch crissue! But I haven't seen them yet - it's usually the same time as the baby blue tits need feeding.
This year masses of the tips of the oak twigs have been snapped off, not sure why or by who!

Sadly we have no Oaks now, wouldn't have room...Before we had 25 running around the boundary..and a Truffle Oak too, stupidly, we left it behind...

Oh, :-(
But you can't take oaks anywhere?!
There are about 12 on the edge of our garden, including front and back, only one is inside the garden, none of the rest belong to us.

The Truffle Oak, was in the ground, but buried in a huge pot...so it could have come with us, but the new Owners, said they would like it...big mistake..

i dont think i know that ~ ive heard of it but will google to see what it looks like.

All is not lost Crissue...You can adopt one in France ..Here you are

http://www.truffle-tree.com/adoption_scheme.html

Amazing photograph, P., it looks like a very posh embroidery!

Do you know the white Truffle sells for, wait for it, £1,500 a kilo...

Ha ha wouldn't mind if they send me a Truffle...P

Or even a kilo....

Money making Idea.....My dog Bruce has a nose that the snottiest sommelier would kill for. You lot chip in and buy a Kilo of white truffle and send it to me.......I will then train Bruce hunt the stuff... :))

The guy up the hill (a retired postie) has two scruffy dogs which hunt truffles with the best of them, and he makes a VERY respectable (albeit supposedly secret and untaxed) living from them. You certainly wouldn't need a kilo, Pim, and (don't tell him I said so, 'cos I'd hate to upset him) unfortunately Bruce is a little long in the tooth for training. Maybe Miss Marbles? ;-)

Lol..Do you think their exists such a thing as a trainable domestiic cat...Even the word domestic when applied to Miss Marbles, just means she likes to watch the washing up.

Nah, probably not - they are all too daft (or that could be crafty, or it could be lazy.....) None of our lot has even learned to speak English yet.

lol....too funny...