Love the sound of yours PM, it's more like three courses all in one
I'm not a big sandwich person, nor a turkey lover. The menfolk here can't wait to have turkey, stuffing with a little apple sauce and a smear of cold gravy !! Whilst they chomp away on the doorstops, I will often have a simple egg mayonnaise on brown bread. I do like the yolk to be a deep golden/orange colour though.
I love egg Mayo too. I’m not a lover of turkey but I refused to do it at Christmas there would be hell on! Luckily for me, only Amie and I (Amie is laddo’s girlfriend) like duck, although girlie and laddo decided to try it as we’d been banging on about how nice it is.
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I will never stop worrying and my family is far from perfect but I love not having the washer on every day, vegging out on the sofa all Sunday afternoon without feeling guilty, not having to cajole kids out of bed in the morning, no morning rush to find shoes books uniform and coats. School traffic!! Missing school plays because I have a job. Appointments for doctors, dentists, opticians. I love going out with my husband to do the most mundane things without being on a timer to get back to cook meals. Going to places without the constant cry of “I’m bored, can we go now?” Tidy house. Fresh smelling house. Settled pets! No pots in the sink. Walking around naked or wearing very little. Waking with a smile. Coming home from work to a house the way I left it. Always having milk and eggs in the fridge. Not having to hide Christmas presents. Not having to hide alcohol and money. Being able to chat without listening ears. Having the bathroom to myself. Clean car interior. Full set of glasses, mugs, plates, no missing cutlery, the quiet and stillness … the peace … the quiet …
Did I mention I love my kids? They are coming for Christmas dinner and they do visit from time to time, in fact laddo and his girlfriend are coming for tea tonight, but my life has not revolved around them, I’ve hopefully done my best to give them the tools they need to devote their lives to making themselves happy, so now, my life is about making me and my husband happy. I firmly believe there’s no right or wrong way, both my kids were brought up the same and are totally opposite now in every single way, so please don’t think I’m trying to say that this is how it should be done.
I’m just really - despite everything - happy in my life now.
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the weather lately is so confused - the hailstones have taken all the blossom off my cherry tree and pushed over the new plants I put in the other weekend. On the plus side, I'm not having to water anything and some hardy plants have made a brave comback - the aquilegas are spreading every year!
Also, we have more feathered visitors! The blackbirds, Mom, Dad, and Baby all come and have a bath in the pond. We also spotted two coal tits and three starlings in there this weekend so we've put up two more brackets for niger seed and mixed seeds, and renewed the seed/fat slab in the hanging cage-holder. One daring bird has even stood on the "shed" roof in next door's garden and hopped up behind the bloody great fake owl, much to my husband's amusement, he's hoping it now tells all the other birds that the owl is a fake!
I *think* the neighbour put it there to ward off the seagulls but in all honesty, although a lot fly over as we are on the coast and a spit away from the River Tyne, our gardens really are too small for seagulls to land. The biggest birds we get are occasional pigeons, and they seems to be reducing in numbers since the old school next door was demolished and replaced by 40-odd houses and bungalows.
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I would love to live near the sea like you Peppersmum, but it does have some negative issues that I hadn’t thought about before, and I do also love to see garden birds, so this morning I have seen a Wren and a Goldfinch while making my morning cuppa, we have a strip of garden right outside the kitchen window this is where I also have Robins visiting, delighted to see Swallows return recently and ‘heard, but rarely seen’ Skylarks 🙂
the seagulls can be a menace, although it’s lovely to be at the cliffs watching them, and the wagtails, sandpipers and plovers too. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
Last Edit: Apr 26, 2021 18:48:47 GMT by Peppersmum
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We have Bluetits in our birdbox and they come back each year which is nice
sadly, we don’t have anywhere safe/high/hidden enough for a bird box and as well as the fake owl next door, we do have a lot of seagulls around. I’ve not seen any small birds in the garden what feels like years.
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I need a pretend owl that actually scares the birds off. The ones I’ve seen are not very realistic and I doubt they’d scare the crows around here.
Where did you get yours. I really need a good one as we’re getting a new (to us) car soon and I’d like to keep this one scratch free. I’d also like to stop having to cover our wipers with lengths of drainpipe to stop them being eaten. I’ve set off a few times and forgotten to take them off and now I’ve got scratches on my windscreen. I am so sick of those crows.
I don’t know magggzzz. It’s our neighbour who put it up but I’ve a feeling you’ll probably find them in most garden centres or online xx
Last Edit: Apr 11, 2021 13:09:33 GMT by Peppersmum
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We live close to the beach but are surrounded by houses and small gardens (although we can see the Tyne from the upstairs bedroom). Our back garden is relatively small and walled, but we did get birds in there until the twit next door spent last summer building a shed (bar/summerhouse/tvroom/insert rolling eyes) butt up against our adjoining fence. Not a problem until he put a great big pretend owl up there to keep the seagulls away. Trouble is, it keeps all the birds away.
Or so I thought, we now have two regular visitors, male and female blackbirds I’ve named Bertie and Nora (after my great grandparents) who regularly come for a drink and a bath in our small pond. It’s lovely to see them.
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