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| | Welcome to our newest member, sdmcc | |  | Posted 04-08-2011 at 09:42 PM by Jackaroo Evening all. (that rather dates me)
I have discovered as I gallop towards my twilight years that a little tart does not quicken my heart as it used to in my dimly remembered youth !!!
As a consequence, while I sit at the garden table with my evening cuppa alfresco and my occasional hat-full of ripe,red gooseberries, I find it preferable to suck the sweet insides out of these fruits and discard the skins, lobbing them in the general direction of the flower-beds for passing vagrant... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Comments 0
 | | Posted 03-08-2011 at 12:35 AM by Jackaroo Updated 04-08-2011 at 09:15 PM by Jackaroo This is the quiet time, around noon. A couple of young blue tits(not quite in their colours yet). A couple of coal tits, getting quite brave these days. A few great tits and a solitary wood pigeon picking over the spillage under the feeders.
Caught a young female blackbird yesterday evening and earlier this morning pinching a few of the remaining white/green gooseberries. No-one, bar myself, seems to be interested in the thick-skinned red gooseberries(wish I could remember the variety).... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 1
| | Posted 08-11-2010 at 10:34 PM by Jackaroo  It's Monday,the weather's vile and work sucks.I've been trying to cheer myself up by going through my old photo files stashed,and mostly,forgotten in odd biscuit tins and tupperwares.One dongle I found must've been stepped on at some point because it was nearly flat. Amazingly it still yielded forth recognisable images! Unfortunately they had been taken by a very basic old digicam which I remember my Mum winning in a crossword comp or somesuch and,though evocative,were of no technical merit whatsoever.I... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 07-11-2010 at 04:01 PM by Jackaroo Updated 07-11-2010 at 04:04 PM by Jackaroo Sunday 7th November 2010.
Lately have been visiting a small loch,Lairds Loch, a few miles from Dundee on the Coupar Angus road.Its about 400 metres in length and a couple of hundred metres wide surrounded mostly by pine woods but with a good proportion of mixed deciduous trees and low brush thrown in for variety. The surrounding area rises fairly steeply in the form of three hills with a varying steepness of approach with good views of moorland and low scrub.The Loch is visited fairly... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 2
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