The heavy rain has held up the workmen. They were supposed to be pouring the concrete floor in the conservatory today but it's been delayed until next week. This also means the under floor heating has to wait. Instead of finishing on August 9th they will now finish during the week of August 9th.The concrete should be poured on the same day the kitchen counter tops arrive from the stone mason. What could go wrong ?
Father gull continues to sit on a chimney pot keeping a watchful eye out for the three youngsters asleep on the flat roof below. He's done this for six and a half weeks . Gulls may be noisy, ill mannered, litter scattering louts but they're exceedingly diligent parents.
With the Royal Scottish Society for Country Dancing in town for their summer festival all the rental flats are taken. On one side of us the singer stops his evening practise at 9:30. The fiddle player on the other side carries on for another twenty minutes. He's playing this old tune, although a tad more quickly :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KGxsT5b2BM . The gull chicks seemed stunned by the audacity of someone competing in the noise stakes and remain silent.
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I'm assuming Angus and the Font have factored in the likelihood of delays and will be able to stay at the Wee House in town a while longer?
It's always distressing to see yet another ailing seabird.
Thank you Angus. I went straight across and ordered one. Not cheap, with postage, but I’m delighted to have secured a copy. Thank you. Now I e seen the front cover I re,ember it was shown on the Exhibition page, but then not showing anywhere in the books, and I looked through the entire collection twice.
As to your hitches with the building project . . . They’re always behind time, aren’t they. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a project completed as promised, or on cost! Post Covid, building in N Z is a disaster. A ship can go from Europe to the Us multiple times in the t8e one trip down here takes, so we’re having huge difficulties with supplies, and costs have skyrocketed. Hey ho. Such is life.
Virginia, as a fellow Kiwi I know exactly what you are alluding to. I brought the same F&P oven that my friend had purchased just before first lock-down in 2020 after lockdown and paid nearly NZ$700 more. I have a friend who is a leadlight artist in Wellington and she said that often supplies from Europe make it to Singapore and then get taken off the container, left on the wharf while the container is sent onto more profitable routes, like to the USA. After all we are a country at the end of the world.
Angus, there’s evidence that it is different species which are being hit this year. Have you read about the gannets’ eyes? Really interesting.
It's always sad to see ailing wild life.
I enjoyed reading about pastries and desserts, though strangely the writing did not make me hanker for them.
Anon - thanks for the link to Gannets eyes turning to black from blue after Avian flu. I'd not seen it. I'm afraid it will be too late for the Razorbills and presumably for their look alikes the Puffins.
It must be so frustrating for you, but unfortunately there is no way to control the weather - particularly in northern climates where it's unpredictable at the best of times. Each occasion we have bought a brand new house, the completion time has always been months after the original date quoted, and we learned to factor a wild guess into our removal date.
It is distressing to lose so many beautiful birds to Avian flu. Animals are at much greater risk than we humans.
How sad it is to see any animal in distress. The rooks seem to be suffering in this part of the world. I found one in the drive under the tree a couple of days ago.
Interesting article; my 40's were the best. I think by then I had decided not to be quite so self-critical and worry about what everyone else thought of me.
Have a great day and I do hope you are able to settle in soon.
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Keep "Diesel" away from the above-mentioned projects!
Soon the chicks will fly the nest, and you will move back the last house before Denmark.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/08/avian-flu-vaccine-wild-bird-transmission-endemic/674903/
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