TWEET OF THE DAY?

It's almost getting like tweet off the day on R4 but today I bring you the common Goldfinch, the most numerous bird in our garden, twas not always thus as they say and although Hil and Sean got them in profusion in Ireland it has only been over the last decade that they have dominated. They are argumentative little things, they always want to be on the feeder another bird is on, they are the usual target of the resident Sparrowhawks which I suppose is just as well otherwise we'd be knee deep in Goldfinches. They are one of our most colourful garden birds in England. It's the big garden bird watch this coming weekend. It seems to go on until the Monday now so it can sweep up schools who want to take part. We have oodles of feed to attract them.

I'm full of the bug which is going around, I don't often give way to anything like this and I haven't so far, I went along to St Oswalds Thursday 10am service and took one of my lovely volunteer interviewees along to Plumleys our garden centre cafe for her interview. I struck another rich vein of film material of which I've downloaded some interesting stuff, there is so much tucked away in nooks and crannies of the net even on Youtube it isn't all that obvious. I was looking at colour footage of Portsmouth trams this afternoon as an instance. Mandy is giving me lemsips, my big toe is hurting, still a hangover from lost nails on the two long distance walks. My throat is sore and I have a cough and my head is spinning but other than that it's all normal.

We didn't manage to Skype our relations in New Zealand last night but it does look like it will work after the computer man fixed Skype on Mandys laptop. I haven't managed to do any more filming but I have pit a lot of clips on our Youtube channel but it seems to have stalled again down at 60k hits a day after getting past 70k last week albeit the revenue it static but with the credit cards landing it could do with being at last Decembers level. There are lots of new model releases on the new Oxford diecast list, I've preoprder those I want through my friends in the West Midlands at Yardley Wood club.

I got the Bus Spot Ultra on Ipswich finished early today as I woke up with the cough etc so got up and did it, not one order today as yet, very strange but the way I feel it's a blessing. Mandy had her hair done this morning and we are having some nice comfort food for dinner, I don't think I'll be heading for our Thursday night drink at the Golden Pheasant in Plumley. The Crown in our village is up for grabs, lots of signs, would you like to run your own pub, great food opportunities but it's falling apart so a big project if anyone takes it on but I hope so as it would be nice to have our local back and have a welcome.

I put Hong Kong trucks and lorries at Runcorn on Youtube plus lots of shots from the Ipswich bus spot. As I'm off to Singapore shortly that is the subject of tonights slide show!