I have great tits

I didn't manage to get a pic of them but it was lovely to watch them on the bird feeder.

There are bluetits and sparrows as well, the bird feeder is proving very popular.

I've had a letter complaining about my non-attendance for my hearing aid appointment. First they claimed that I'd received a phone call making the appointment, then they claimed they sent a letter. I'm absolutely desperate to get my new aids so there is no way I wouldn't have attended if I'd known. It seems they had an address for me that was 12 years old. Obviously the hospital are insisting the mistake is mine even though every other department has sent letters to my current address!

I've set up three seed trays and am hoping to grow some flowers for my new bed. I also have a couple of plants ready to go in and I'm hoping to buy a lavender plant too.

Playing silly bloggers

Blogger decided to play catch up this morning and so I received an influx of posts. It's taken me a while to catch up.

My neighbour has been working hard on my garden, I now have a flower bed edged in grey bricks and some hard standing for my bins.
 

Local wildlife.

Where I live is a little mini estate of ten properties connected by footpaths, the roads go round the outside so there is only foot traffic between the properties.

I have known, because of Beano's behaviour that there is wildlife using the footpaths after dark.

Y'day I babysat for my daughter and walked home with Beano at about 11 pm. I had my shopping trolley with me as I had collected some large bricks to be used for edging my new flower bed. We were almost home when Beano suddenly became very alert,  he'd spotted something interesting. He took off like a rocket, dragging me and my shopping trolley behind him. I managed to slow him down and realised it was a fox that he'd seen. It managed to slip through a fence and into someone's garden, Beano couldn't follow it. I eventually managed to persuade him to come home with me albeit very reluctantly.

Tonight I took Beano out for his late night widdle and he stopped dead as soon as he left the front door. There was a hedgehog snuffling around in the hedge outside my door. I managed to persuade him to leave it alone and we walked a little way until he had finished his necessities. When we returned to our front door the hedgehog had disappeared, from Beano's behaviour I think it had gone through the hedge into one of the gardens that is untended and must be a little wildlife haven.

One of my neighbours has a birdbox on his shed, today I watched a bluetit going in and out of the box.

Message

I received a lovely message y'day from my neighbour Harry,  where i used to live. He was asking about Beano as he was very fond of him and misses seeing him.

He tactfully didn't mention Steve and neither did I in my reply but I have offered to keep him updated with news of Beano.

Today I went to the local pub for lunch, my grass has been mowed by  a local gardener, I've changed my bedding, dried two machine loads of washing on the line, had a delivery of compost for the garden and I've been sent some assorted fabric that an online friend couldn't use.

The fabric is in a pile and I keep looking at it,awaiting for inspiration to strike. I think I can make a dressing gown and a couple of short sleeved tops at least.

Quilted dog blanket

I took the little quilted blanket to the coffee morning today, I gave it to the dogs owner and suggested she took it home and kicked it about for a few days until it no longer smelled of Beano.

Instead she placed it on a chair whereupon her little dog jumped up and settled down on it immediately.

I'm so please she likes it.

Sewing

 

I'm making a little quilted blanket for a dog who's owner has admired Beano's blanket., It's made from some summer dresses that I no longer wear as they were developing holes in the skirts. I've cut strips of fabric as I can't see well enough to cut small squares. I've backed it with fluffy fabric from an old pair of pyjamas and the quilt wadding is new cotton wadding so it's all washable. I hope both dog and owner like it.

Feeling insecure

Not me, Beano is insecure despite being with me for ten years now.

This bungalow is only a little bigger than the flat and the flat was slightly smaller then the narrow boat we had when we first got Beano.

Despite this Beano has always followed me from room to room. When I do the washing up or I'm cooking, he sits on his mat in the kitchen. If I go to the toilet he sits on my feet, when I'm in the shower he sits on the bath mat. He seems to think I'll disappear if he doesn't keep his eye on me.

Today I was using the sewing machine which is on a desk between the sofa and the arm chair. The desk is about four inches away from the sofa and only two inches from the chair. Beano got off the sofa and eyed up the stool I was sitting on he eventually decided there wasn't room for him on the stool so he climbed on to the arm chair so he was slightly nearer to me.

When we go to bed at night Beano wriggles around until his back legs are pressed against my side. That way he will know if I leave the bed and he can come and find me. When I go to the bathroom during the night he wakes but doesn't usually follow me, he will wait until I return to bed and the wriggle around until his legs are once again pressed against me.