Trials Travel Roadworks & Ducks
Posted: Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
Hello
New here, although I believe some have already come across my wife’s blog (Housewife). Some sad news to start with, my wife’s Granny has taken a turn for the worst, she’s elderly and has been suffering breathing problems for some time. Last night we got the call that she might not make the night, so all efforts were put into finding a quick way to fly to Ireland. Not as easy as you may think whilst living on a small island surrounded my lots of wet stuff! Nor is it cheap, I think with the final price of the one-way flight, could have been a nice stay in a hotel in Dubai! However, as luck might have it, flights were found, and my wife has got off to a good start, weather is good, if not rather dull, and the latest update is her Gran is stable. Funerals take place quicker than you can blink in Ireland, so one has to move fast, hopefully it may not come to that, but we’ll wait and see.
In the meantime I’ve been left home alone with our two little ducklings, who I have to admit, have been very well behaved under the circumstances, working as a dairy manager previously and with lots of contact with various animals, I’m pretty sure they ‘do’ sense what’s up when the time is right.
They had their first constitutional yesterday afternoon, both went head to head in a battle of attack the dock leaves, and who could snap up the most little bugs in close proximity, and I’m pleased to say ‘here’s some pictures’.
They’ve had their new house built for indoor and outdoor use, I just wish it could hover as it’s not the easiest thing to move about, but they do seem happy and content with it all. I’m just hoping they both grow up to be happy healthy adult ducks! Still, it’s nice to have them at that ‘cute fluffy looking like bath toys’ stage. I’m sure my wife and I will update as time goes on.
With much to do, sort, and calls to make, I’m still trying to anticipate when the exciting road works start, totally novel here, it doesn’t happen that often, and the outside of our home got decorated with road signs by the council last night. We did see the dreaded 20mph loose chipping signs and looked quite fearfully at our rather old, thin and very warped glass in our sash windows. One little stone coming flying up is all it takes to break one! Although new glass would be nice, looking out first thing in the morning and seeing a 4 foot high rabbit looking back at you from across the adjacent field can be quite alarming, move you head an inch the other way and you have a 6 foot long sausage rabbit! Flat fields grow mountains, and the 3 turbines we can see become rather odd looking. It’s about then you’ve woken up realised you’re not seeing things and it’s the rather warped shaped panes of glass in the window.
I wonder if anyone will phone Sally Traffic from BBC Radio 2 to alert her of our impending road surfacing? I’m sure it would bring a smile to the Radio 2 listeners on the Island!
Well I must get on, I have two chirping ducks to attend to, a Stove to check that it’s still lit, shopping to do, and to check on my beloved wife to make sure things are ok. Did I mention the ducks? Quack! Well more of a chirp, they can’t master the quack just yet!
New here, although I believe some have already come across my wife’s blog (Housewife). Some sad news to start with, my wife’s Granny has taken a turn for the worst, she’s elderly and has been suffering breathing problems for some time. Last night we got the call that she might not make the night, so all efforts were put into finding a quick way to fly to Ireland. Not as easy as you may think whilst living on a small island surrounded my lots of wet stuff! Nor is it cheap, I think with the final price of the one-way flight, could have been a nice stay in a hotel in Dubai! However, as luck might have it, flights were found, and my wife has got off to a good start, weather is good, if not rather dull, and the latest update is her Gran is stable. Funerals take place quicker than you can blink in Ireland, so one has to move fast, hopefully it may not come to that, but we’ll wait and see.
In the meantime I’ve been left home alone with our two little ducklings, who I have to admit, have been very well behaved under the circumstances, working as a dairy manager previously and with lots of contact with various animals, I’m pretty sure they ‘do’ sense what’s up when the time is right.
They had their first constitutional yesterday afternoon, both went head to head in a battle of attack the dock leaves, and who could snap up the most little bugs in close proximity, and I’m pleased to say ‘here’s some pictures’.
They’ve had their new house built for indoor and outdoor use, I just wish it could hover as it’s not the easiest thing to move about, but they do seem happy and content with it all. I’m just hoping they both grow up to be happy healthy adult ducks! Still, it’s nice to have them at that ‘cute fluffy looking like bath toys’ stage. I’m sure my wife and I will update as time goes on.
With much to do, sort, and calls to make, I’m still trying to anticipate when the exciting road works start, totally novel here, it doesn’t happen that often, and the outside of our home got decorated with road signs by the council last night. We did see the dreaded 20mph loose chipping signs and looked quite fearfully at our rather old, thin and very warped glass in our sash windows. One little stone coming flying up is all it takes to break one! Although new glass would be nice, looking out first thing in the morning and seeing a 4 foot high rabbit looking back at you from across the adjacent field can be quite alarming, move you head an inch the other way and you have a 6 foot long sausage rabbit! Flat fields grow mountains, and the 3 turbines we can see become rather odd looking. It’s about then you’ve woken up realised you’re not seeing things and it’s the rather warped shaped panes of glass in the window.
I wonder if anyone will phone Sally Traffic from BBC Radio 2 to alert her of our impending road surfacing? I’m sure it would bring a smile to the Radio 2 listeners on the Island!
Well I must get on, I have two chirping ducks to attend to, a Stove to check that it’s still lit, shopping to do, and to check on my beloved wife to make sure things are ok. Did I mention the ducks? Quack! Well more of a chirp, they can’t master the quack just yet!
Comments
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Anne from IBHQ
I've died and gone to Cat Heaven. There seem to be feathered dinners everywhere these days....it must be the time of year.
Flying Cat from Orkney Mainland
hullo mister, mind drop up if ye need anything and keep us posted tae. Glad the ducks are doing well, love tae the missus. :-) P.S they are no` bath toys mind!
Hermit from Just up the road
Hope your wife and her gran are OK, best wishes to them. Lovely duck pictures - what do these little things eat? And why are they different colours? I don't think you should phone the BBC about your roadworks, though, as it would just infuriate all those poor souls trapped on the M25! Thanks for an enjoyable blog.
Jill from EK
They have a stretch of the dreaded '20 mph loose chippings' on the hill into Scalloway, and for the first time I can recall the car at the front of the queue I was in kept strictly to 19. 5mph vehicles coming the other way, well forget it, you become a slow moving target.
Lerwick Trevor from Avoiding roadsigns
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