Meal for Malik

Mum and Carole made a lovely chicken dinner for Malik and invited us. Malik wanted some pics of himself in his uniform so I took my camera. We were all pretty choked on saying goodbye. Please God keep our boy safe ♥

A snapshot of life on the Wildside

This morning I spent an enjoyable half hour watching the wildlife passing through my back garden. Much better than watching Jeremy Kyle on the TV!
Got the shock of my life when I saw what I thought was a leaf whizz past the patio window though because I swore it had a tail! Turned out it did indeed have a tail with a tiny mouse attached to it ;)

The mouse and the elephant

 Leaf with a tail?

 Who are you looking at?

There are two Magpies building a nest in the tree in next door but one's garden and they're forever back and forth collecting twigs and other bits and pieces. 

Aniello spotted one Magpie dipping some bread in water, then tapping it on the fence to get rid of the excess. He then flew off to place it in the nest. Shame I missed it :(

I did get these though :)

The owner of the house at the back of us keeps Pigeons and Collared doves and they come into our garden every day eating the seed we put out for the smaller birds. They drive us mad but they make great models for me!

I managed to capture a Great Tit at the top of our tree. Not a brilliant photo but I wanted to add it because it's cute ♥

The Starlings come every day too but today I only caught this one on its lonesome. 

And last but not least I had a visit from another regular....Squirrel Nutkins. We've had lots of different squirrels over the past 5 years. Male, female, ones with torn ears, some braver than others and we call them all Nutkins. Today's Nutkins was tiny and came very close to the door so must be getting pretty used to us Humans. It was a pretty little thing. Unfortunately the photo's I took from inside the house weren't very good so when I spotted him having a rest in the Willow tree I went out and took these ♥

A lovely Blackbird landed briefly but was gone before I could take a photo. All in all a very enjoyable half an hour. Love my garden :)

Spring Snow

22nd March 2013

Weather radar

http://www.weathercast.co.uk/radar/united-kingdom.html

Beautiful pattern

http://knits4kids.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pattern1.pdf

Malik's farewell party

Had a lovely time last night at Malik's off to Afghan party. He was in very good spirits and is looking forward to his first tour of duty. Pics are herehttp://public.fotki.com/nattynetty/all-my-photos/maliks-farewell-party/

Malik's farewell party

Tonight my sister is having a party for my nephew Malik who's off to Afghanistan in a couple of weeks. It's going to be such a worrying time for us all, but he's worked so hard to get to where he is today and is living his dream so we must give him all our support. Please God keep him and all his comrades safe. He'll be gone for 7 months but hopefully it'll pass quickly. I made him a teddy bear mascot to take with him. I wasn't sure he would want to take it but he assures me he will and he'll take some photo's of his bear whenever he can. I'm hoping for one of him with the whole platoon and maybe one on an army vehicle! Here is the teddy and may he keep our boy safe ♥