For the next two weeks, in the morning, I have to achieve two tricky (for me!) tasks: I have to get up out of bed at a sensible time, drink a full glass of water (I don't generally drink just water!) with my new pills, whilst standing or sitting and not lie down for thirty minutes. I have to do the same thing again twelve hours later, in the ( Read more... )

Growing unrest as HS2 campaign rumbles on - Local news - Selby Times

Nice stickers ! Brilliant idea :)

but mostly on facebook these days

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So we've had our latest cats almost a year now. Three were delivered but a fourth one joined the group. He is much larger than the others and a bit scary looking but they all get on very well together. Wally and Doodle often come and hang around the back door mid-morning, asking for their dinner, or sometimes Polly does, but she's more ( Read more... )

I finally remembered my login details :)

 
Our invisicats are what remains of a family of five rescued from a garden in Rothwell in September 2007. They were neutered and chipped and rehomed as ferals, in Armley I think, with a lady who has recently died, hence the urgent need for someone else to take them on. Originally there were two black boys , and two black and white cats, one a boy ( Read more... )

On the twelfth day of Christmas in our garden there do be -
12 chickens lodging
11 sparrows bathing
10 squirrels stealing
9 rats a running
8 bats a roosting
7 spiders spinning
6 badgers burrowing
5 big black crows
4 fancy pheasants
3 feral cats
2 tiny toads
and Hektra with a frisbee.

Couldn't resist copying this out for posterity, and other Downtonphiles ( Read more... )

Some time ago I wrote about our 9yr old neighbour, Amy, who had just had her first book published. Well, now she has her second one out and I think it might be of interest to some of you. Page 16 features a stunning picture of the back of our hedge. If only it looked as good on our side :( Leave a comment