What are you all up to

😱Sounds awful.

OH has always fed birds, but it can get expensive. He orders a bulk sack of quality food from Vine House Farm. Our squirrels are super fit and glossy🤔 I think there is a connection. I can cope with the squirrels, it’s our rat that I am waging war on😡 We have a big, live capture trap out at the moment, but Mr Super rat has obviously found a way of getting in, eating his fill and getting back out again. I am getting close to borrowing an air rifle……..l

Sounds a bad do next door Millie. I hope things go well for them.

We’ve had to stop feeding birds because we realised we were making them targets for squirrels. A few times we witnessed squirrels pouncing on birds as they ate. I hadn’t realised until then that squirrels are omnivores. The birds will fend for themselves and we might have saved a few by not feeding them.

Thanks for the tip about Trading Standards DEBSC. I will store that information away in case it is needed

Yes, squirrels will eat birds, eggs and nestlings although they are not a major part of their diet. The domestic cat is by far a more significant predator killing many birds. 

WN, sorry to hear that both you and Mrs WN are suffering from Covid, and hope that both of you are soon rid of it. 

R&R, fingers crossed that your adverse reaction to the injections are soon over. Hopefully no-one else suffers after having their injections.

So far we have avoided the virus, and perhaps the next round of jabs, which we get next week,  will continue to shield us from it. 

We have moved further south, to the C&CC's Jedburgh site. We were able to get packed up in the dry but ran into rain soon after leaving Dunbar, and it has continued for most of the day, but thankfully much lighter here than in the route down. There are only 10 units on the site, with the majority being M/Hs, whereas at Dunbar there was a predominance of caravans.

Well, we've had 'one of those days' today!!  Packed up at Bridlington CAMC site.  Got into the car ready to hitch up and...... no power at all - a completely flat battery!  Called Mayday/ Green Flag, who arived around 12.30pm.  They jump started the car, but confirmed that the battery was basically worn out and I needed a new one.  Once the car was started, I could drive it....  so we hitched up, drove from Bridlington to Tamworth, dropped of the caravan at the storeage and ended up at Halfords for a new battery.... making sure that we didn't switch off the car engine, until Halfords confirmed they had a battery.

All sorted now, but it did  put us back, time wise, and it was around 6.30pm before we arrived home....

David

Sorry to hear about the  battery problems, David - but it serves as a timely reminder to me to do something about mine. I've had the Touareg from new and it's now over 9 years old - still with the original battery. Never had a car that long before but I'm reluctant to part with it because it's the best tow car I have ever had.

No indication that there is anything wrong with the battery and our local garage just can't believe it's the original one - but it won't last forever and I think it would be sensible to change it before it has to work harder this winter.

Trouble is - it's not as simple as yours to change.  The battery is under the front passenger seat and that has to come out first!

We can go several days without using the car so with our previous vehicle, especially in winter, could be difficult to start despite a recent battery. I got myself a power pack from Machine Mart, £60/70 from memory. Very easy to use it to start the car and it can be used for all sorts of other things as  charging your phone.

David