Of Sparrow Hawks and Woodpeckers

The woodpecker seems resident morning, noon and night at the moment. after the weekend away the bird feeders were all empty needless to say now they are full with diners a plenty and one of which has just provided the Sparrowhawks with dinner. Such is nature and the wildlife in our garden. I noticed that there were hedgehog dropping in the garden again but we don't see them now as its so late when they emerge from their nests. The garden looks very well after the weekend no doubt it rained here a bit, the late summer flowers are taking over, lots of reds and yellows very bright everyuwhere plus an area of pinks several plants across, the from bed need weeding but i thought as i'd remembered to get the touch up paints from Halfords that i'd take care of the van which needed some black inside the rear door panels which had scraped on the stock inside over the years and the wheel hubs which needed a tidy the first parts to get a hint of rust but again needless to say not dressed for mechanics or painting the paint went adrift in the wind and I've got some on my pullover although the path scrubbed up clean.

The weather looks very good in Moldova and hopefully also fair enough for next Sunday at Worthing rally, if you didn'tt make it to Alton try Worthing, we'll have plenty more copies of Southdown 100 run off by then. There was a good internet haul of orders over the weekend and lots from the latest Buses mag on the phone today. I'm just burning the Reading buses DVD and clips should be on the internet later. Reading forms the slide show as filmed on Saturday. Next weekend we hope to cover croydon and Crawley being on the way to our hotel at Gatwick.