Advice please Val.

As our resident photographer, and very good I must say, I mentioned in my last blog about birds not standing still.

So there I am in the garden an hour ago and what flies past, very low about roof level, but a sparrow hawk after a pigeon. Fantastic photo shot you may think, and I agree, but I am ion the garden and the damn camera is upstairs in the bedroom. BUGGER IT.

That’s the first time I have seen a sparrow hawk so close to the house, we get them and hobby hawks in the woods down the bottom of our road, but never in our garden.

So Val how do I get round that?

Roses

Shot these while I was shooting the competition entry – amazing what a difference a couple of weeks makes 🙂

The first three blooms are all on the same bush.

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Headgear

It was mostly about headgear yesterday. Posh headgear. Not cycling helmets or berets or straw boaters or little transparent plastic rainhoods the like of which my nan always used to have handy in her bag in case of a sudden rainshower.

It was important that those little rainhoods were transparent. I mean, you pay all that money for a purple rinse so people should jolly well be able to admire it,  even in the harshest of Welsh weather. Continue reading “Headgear”

Jackass

No, I’m not being insulting. This is apparently a new and dangerous game, a bit like “planking” but faster. According to this report in Nice Matin today, four crew members, described as Australians  and New Zealanders,  from a boat in Antibes decided after a night on the town to try this game demonstrated on TV by a couple of Americans.  It involves riding a dustbin down a flight of steps.  In this case a short, but steep, flight of stone steps with a nice solid stone wall on one side. I know these steps well.  Unfortunately the emergency services had to be called when one lad ended up unconscious at the foot of the steps. He is very seriously ill.  Let’s hope this puts other boys off this game.

Here is the link to the article.