Plagues of Locusts and Attack of the Birds. Some very strange goings on... The weather has been acting very funny and now so is the wild life.
** Last week mum and I were sitting outside on one of the rare days we had a fairly clear sky and suddenly all the birds around started chirping wildly and 'swarming' around the neighbours garden. It started first with the smaller birds - garden sparrows, swallows and weavers, then in came the big boys, the larger birds you can see in the photo are Kites. Now usually we see the odd Kite attacking a smaller bird, but this time they were all flying in between each other not attacking each other but definitely having a feeding frenzy on something! Mum said it reminded of the Hitchcock movie 'The Birds' it was quite scary actually, cos there were no birds anywhere else. When we asked the neighbours if they knew what had happened they said they hadn't even seen it they'd been out !!!
** Then this weekend Aunt J who is an avid gardener, who was 'borrowing' a plant from my garden!!! Which actually had been hers originally (long story, bit complicated) called me over and said bring your camera and here we have a 'swarm' of locusts munching their way across my land. Good thing I'm not worried about the garden just yet!!! I have never seen anything quite like this either, when you approach the 'swarm' they all clump together on top of each other almost as if they're trying to make themselves look bigger. It's probably a defense mechanism. We went back round on Sunday and there was not a blade of green grass left in their path, you could actually see where they had moved and they seem to have disappeared!!!Luckily for J. they were heading away from her garden... But where they came from and where they went???
** Nature is a very funny thing and we're seeing some very weird things while we're here, guess it's cos I have nothing else to get excited about at the moment. My brother reckons we have to find out what plague is next, what with tornado's, attack of the birds and now locusts, maybe we need to get the local witch doctor in !!!!
** Still no answers on the 'new found' problem on the land, we're now waiting for structural engineers but they are busy trying to sort out the flooding problems and the damage the tornado did around town so O.I.A and HUAW...
** KB was in his first swimming gala on Friday and I was very proud of him, considering he's never swam competitively before! Their team came last but they won first prize for Team Spirit. He seemed to enjoy it. I'm glad that at least the sun shone on Friday as all the pools are outside and they way the weather has been !!!
** Crafting ... well still not doing any... no further forward their either. But I do have some news for all of you in Bolsover, Glenis and Sharon are still 'hosting' their respective Clubs on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
They've both given me their dates for 2009 - Tuesday Club hosted by Glenis is on 20th January/17th February/ 17th March.
Saturday Club hosted by Sharon is on 10th January/14th February/14th March/18th April/9th May/ 13th June
. If you want any information about any of these clubs don't hesitate to drop me an e-mail and I'll pass your details onto either Glenis or Sharon.** Well that's it again for this week. Keep posting me those comments, gr8 to hear from you all. Take care till next time.
Quote for this week: Handle every stressful situation like a dog. Piss on it and walk away !!!!
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