Hiya HUC.
Another great start to my day AND another picture from my window. The quality isn't good but it shows the sun rising and lighting up my picture of Venice.
It made me happy.
So what's made YOU happy today?
Hazy, lazy and a little bit crazy Mr Bounce.
so beautiful ❤️
Looking out of my kitchen window last evening and seeing Mr Badger eating bird food on the roof of my woodshed. Ran off up the bank behind the house to wild wood when he saw me.
... and the 9 whitetail deer eating the bird seed under the feeders, and the trio of raccoons waiting for them to finish. In 7f (-14c) temperatures here in Ohio!
That's beautiful! My happy start? There is a bright shiny thing in the sky,I have just been able to taste my toast and lime marmalade after a horrible cold and I have had a delivery of wool ready for making up!Have a nice Monday all!
Oh lime marmalade, love it. Woolwarehouse delivery by any chance? x
Yes! My little vice! Greeting fellow yarn and lime lover!
Thank you Paul.
What makes me happy in the morning is opening my curtains to see all the birds lined up for food. It’s good to feel wanted!
My garden goes down to the river Nene and it is continuous feeding ducks, swans and even geese. At night we have a fox and she will soon be bringing her cubs.
l am so fortunate to live here with all this beauty of nature, but apart from that, there is nothing like the first cuppa of the morning and to have the sun streaming through the window.
Have a nice day everyone.
Chris.
Sounds lovely Chis. A coffee / sun light and nature are a great combo to start your day.
Paul
Sounds out of this world so lovely. Have a great day😍
I recognised Venice Paul, So I'm guessing you've been there?
A beautiful place spoilt by all the people selling cheap tat from stalls. I wonder if that still happens.
Just on my way home from York and my beautiful granddaughters wonderful wedding. Being there made me happy and I've been to her house for the first time. We all love her husband, a kind man. They've been together for a while, hoping for a grandchild asap. God bless them with that please.
Jean
Hi Jean.
Yes I have been to Venice a few times. It's expensive and you need to dig deep in to your pockets to pay for a meal out etc!
I hope you have a new grandchild soon. You'll have to wait at least 9 months though. I'm sure he or she will be worth the wait.
Catch up soon Jean.
Paul
I do a lot of crocheting and for the first time today I have managed to decide on 12 colours I need for a blanket I want to make. I usually find it hard to decide and go along with suggested colours. Ordering yarn always makes me happy too.
Love the picture of Venice. Im reading a series of detective novels (all 33) all set in and around Venice and makes me want to go there.
Hi Frances.
You should go to Venice - well worth a visit. Can you crochet a blanket for me too please - it's so cold at night I could do with one🤣
Paul
Hi
But it would need to be lined.
So many holes, Paul.
I'd go a patchwork quilt any day. Crochet for shawls, Paul.
You could set to and make your own though, Paul. Like cooking very satisfying.
cheriJOY
Coastal Crochet or maybe Attic 24 pattern? I always crochet when having an Afib episode, it's a bit like mindfulness or meditation it really helps me to calm down and ride it out. Rosie 🧶
Love Attic 24 and have used Coastal Crochet a couple of times. Just about to start Lucy’s new Canal pattern but as a sweater that Kaz has designed. Think I must have shares in Woolwarehouse and when the postman arrives with a squishy parcel it makes me very happy. x
I so agree, about squishy parcels 😍. I have done many of their patterns but am just embarking on a stash Buster called log cabin granny square blanket by Hooked on Robin, am clearing out all my half balls and bits and bobs. Love the canal blanket colours and a sweater in that design sounds wonderful. Happy hooking 🧶
Hi
Venice was a favourite of all my trips whilst working in UK 6 years.
Lace, glassy lollies, Masks and watching the Gondolas was special. I stayed in the YHA on the island.
I briyght back 2 dorllies, glass lollies and a mask. Not forgetting a framed picture.
Venice is really worth it.
cheri JOY. 76. (NZ)
It's beautiful and unique,especially away from the main streets.
3 kookaburra’s came and sat on our clothes line this morning and sang out in style for a little snack, a real joy seeing them so close up!
I still have fond memories of my only ever sighting of a platypus when it suddenly appeared before me in a forest pond in subtropical northern NSW way back in the late 1960's. And made more precious because I have lived in UK since the early 1970's.
They sure are beautiful yet unusual creatures our platypus! Here’s one of the Kooka’s that visit us…
Great! I think there are a lot of video clips on YouTube of friendly kookaburras on suburban balconies hoping to be fed. Is your balcony in the suburbs? Which part of OZ?
Beautiful birds, my favourite, but never wins the Australian Bird of the Year Poll.
We’re in Sydney on the Northern Beaches lots of bird life we also have magpies daily who are really clever and remember human faces and the little Butcher Birds that sing beautifully… they are my favourites!
Yes, the suburbs of the northern beaches are a wholly different world to the Kogarah (Clive James) & Brighton-le-Sands of my youth, where, sadly, never a kookaburra was to be seen. And that was back in the 50's and 60's, so I am pleased your kookaburras have survived in parts of Sydney some 65-75 years later. Thanks for posting the photos. Bob.
Wow!
Yes, re magpies remembering faces ... a similar aged male friend of mine was walking along a tree lined shopping street in an east London and suddenly got attacked by a magpie during the breeding season. It drew blood from his head and an ambulance called if I remember correctly. While it must have been quite frightening, I couldn't help later reminding him of the face recognition talents of magpies should he ever walk that way during any following breeding season. I sent him a photo of a magpie with the caption "Where's Tony?" added.
Mind you, I wouldn't want to be attacked by a butcher bird either, no matter how melodic their song.
My little Chihuahua's purring when she gets me out of bed lol, sweet little dog with a great disposition, would make anyone happy.
Ready for the train to London where I’m meeting my sister for overnight stay to see exhibitions and Kew Gardens. So satisfying to fill some picnic rolls with favourite fillings! A proper treat after a long winter and recovering from a nasty cold.
My wife, Wendy, goes to Kew each year by train with her sister. They find a little Italian restaurant for lunch. The last time was November so it will be a different display from the one you’ll see. She tells me you’re in for a treat if it’s as good as the Christmas one!
Steve
Thank you Steve, it’s nice Kew has special family connections for your wife too. The Peruvian orchids were spectacular!
sitting on my new terrace on the back of my house in France. Lots of sun here at the moment. Getting out in the garden and listening to the birds. The snowdrops are beautiful the first camellias are out. Pale pink. Heaven!
We're off to open our house up at the end of April, can't wait
Hope the weather is kind to you. Have a lovely time!
Thanks, could really do with some warm sunshine
Very cheering start to my day too! Thanks.
From my kitchen window yesterday when the sun came out for the first time in 10 days !
Thanks. We watch the birds at our feeders while we have our meals inside. Some long tailed tits visited today with the Robin and other tits and finches, as we were having breakfast fruit and muesli inside.
Blue tits checking the boxes out.
Wonderful! We have a nest box in our garden and a few bluetits on the feeders , so fingers x. We always get sparrows nesting in the eaves every year. They're very cheeky and as soon as they know I'm in the kitchen, they appear.
Hi
Working - Yes thanx.
Tried t send it to another who needs cheering up.
Reminded me of me under 14 going to opera in Wellington with my family.
Wonderful!
Eating a push up choco coated vanila icecream.
Its gone 5am, Taken 125mg synthroid which is gradually melting under tongue. Sublingual.
Back toskeep soon.
Thanx Bounce.
TOO HOT here.
Hydration.
Couldn't make out - out of window - saw the cats not lovely Venice and the gondolas!
cheri JOY
This is the first day I haven’t cried since the death of my husband with MND six months ago. I’m physically feeling better as it was very hard work, and I had six chest infections one after the other, but today, I can see the wood for the trees.
And .. your picture is fab 👍
Sorry for your loss, I'm pleased you're starting to feel a bit better, keep on trucking, the spring is coming soon. Best wishes
K.
Hi Cha.
Sounds like you have had to tough time of it. It takes a long time to stop crying when a loved one dies. I know this from losing my mother.
All best,
Paul
Thanks a lot Paul.
Seeing the family of long tailed tits and a pair of goldfinches sharing the feeders, along with the normal. Oh, and the female blackbird that has decided it wasn't made out to be a ground feeder and ungainly hangs off the feeders while having breakfast. But no woodie this morning.
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