Joes blog

I know its in there somewhere

Where to start well lets see,Bruce and Pattie are back from Australia and had a great time visiting Pattie’s family and getting smashing weather into the bargain,lots of photo’s with some rather nice ones of the local wildlife. Sid and Lil celebrated Lils 70 th at the Gosforth Park Hotel in the Ascot suite with good numbers of close friends there to wish her Happy Birthday and enjoy a great slap-up meal( yum-yum ) had to take a “provi”out for my bar tab tho and am still trying to catch me moths !.

My mate MOT had to do a re installation on yours truly’s computer which was rather hard going in fact him and Jean needed a holiday in Majorca to recover ,we collected them from the airport and said they had good weather and enjoyed the short break,that what its all about guys. This holiday business must be catching because Ang and Dan went off yesterday for a week in Lanzarote leaving us two to look after OTIS(thats the Guinea pig)

They left strict instructions on what and when to feed him ,exercise him ,and clean his dirty corner out every day.Carol and I are going to need a hol after this lot,in fact we are going over to Leighton Moss for a bit of walking and birding next week.

When the bulbs start flowering that’s the time to crank up the motorhome and get away for one of our short breaks which is just what we did last week,down the A19 into North Yorkshire stopping off just out of Osmotherly at Cod Beck for a short walk around Cod Beck Reservoir then back to the motorhome for a late lunch.Finally a short walk up the beck then off to the site to get parked up and settled for the night simple eh !. Arriving at the site there was nobody in so we decided to make ourselves at home and park up on the first pitch inspecting the ground as we do, swung the motorhome round to reverse onto the pitch halfway back I stopped (God knows why) but I ended up stuck and going no-where as you can see.

The last pic is showing yours truly delving into his wallet to pay the local farmer for his services ( o me moths !).Putting all that behind us the rest of the week was spent walking (climbing) Roseberry Topping ,the Capt Cook Monument,and spending a day with Aunty Glad.

Finally on the last day (fri) we had a look around Thirsk before making a short journey down to the Oaks fishery at Sessay to watch No 1 son having a practice session before fishing the big match on Sunday ( the smile says it all ).Sunday saw a section win with 45lb of fish. (Well done)

A nice bright morning so I thought I would take the camera and have walk down to the pond 30+Greylags down by the public hide and a nice Curlew feeding in the field, then it was back up to the members hide to get a distance shot of a Pochard and a pair of great crested Grebe’s not being very cooperative also had a quick glimpse of the water-rail.

Had a great morning out at Far pastures with my mate Bob on Thursday,it was quite chilly with a nice hoar- frost and quite a lot of the lake frozen over.However a lot of the wildlife were quite obliging as you can see from the pics with the Snipe taking top spot,along with Coot,Moorhen and Water-rail