Just made it for this month’s blog 😁
September tomorrow, autumn, no! I’ve been loving this summer, I’ve always said that I should have been born somewhere with a warmer climate. I really won’t miss watering the gardens though, it was bad enough when we could use a hose but using cans and buckets was far worse. I’ve decided that someone needs to invent lighter water 😂 It wouldn’t take half as long if the watering cans and buckets weren’t so damn heavy. I don’t know when the hosepipe ban will be lifted but I can’t even use my cat repeller, to protect my wildlife garden as it needs attaching to the hose. My night time wildlife camera shows just how many cats visit our garden (way too many). I really like cats but they kill so much wildlife. A squirt of water won’t do them any harm but it does deter them.
As you can tell, I did almost forget this August post and I had a peek at the stats this morning to see if I could get away with skipping the blog until September. However, I’m very pleased to say that I am still far exceeding my minimum number of readers. I’ve said it before, when you don’t read it, I won’t write it but for now lots of my lovely ex-customers tell me how much they enjoy reading my monthly blog. Funnily enough, I have just taken a call asking if I am still selling bugs, so I’m clearly not forgotten yet 😊 My Facebook page is going strong but I’ve been pretty poor at keeping it up. We visited the Stratford butterfly farm last weekend. It was a lovely visit, I went with my son, daughter and grandchildren but I forgot to take any photos from behind and as I said in my last blog, I am no longer posting photos of my gorgeous little ones.
I’m always saying that I should read my previous post before starting the next but I never remember until I have started the next. I have just read the July blog so following on - The saga of my tooth, I won’t bore you too much but I had to pay another £400 to get the rest of my tooth removed. It was torture and I wasn’t prepared for the agony I was left in afterwards! The dissolvable stitches didn’t dissolve, so two weeks later (still in constant pain) I had to go back to the dentist, pay another £127 to get the stiches removed. I must say that it was then almost instant relief, if I had known, I would have taken them out myself a week before. I kept threatening to remove the stitches but we were away in Hull one week and then Dorset the second. Hull was to visit my elderly half-brother and family but we did indeed get to visit Tim Baxter and he very kindly gave me a guided tour of his facility and also gave me a new baby scorpion and a scorpion that he had set in a frame. What a lovely chap, so knowledgeable, friendly and helpful. Dorset was a lovely treat, organised by our daughter in-law. We stayed in a beautiful Airbnb, country house. We went to Monkey World (to see my adopted Orangutan daughter, Oshine), we had beautiful weather, in one of my favourite places and then the next day we went to the Tank Museum 🤨 I tried so hard to get out of it and spend a day alone at Monkey World but my adorable grandson Bob was having none of it and made me go. War, fighting, guns and misery is really not my thing and then they said that our tickets were an annual pass, I couldn’t help laughing! (no chance).
It really is so different not having the bugs, I couldn’t go anywhere without so much work involved, both before and after any trip. Now I’ve been everywhere this summer (hence not having time for my blog). We are yet to have the holiday camp break with our daughter and family and week in Cyprus (just my husband and I). I also went to a school reunion yesterday, it was a very enjoyable afternoon, I do love a bit of reminiscing 😄 We were pretty lucky with the weather. This afternoon we are going to a local fete, I think we may well need umbrellas but we are British so we are going 😂
Speeding up as it’s nearly lunch time – I have had my new car for three weeks now and it’s fantastic, it has so many features that my last new car didn’t have, I love it! I had never had a new car before and then this year I’ve had two.
A few days ago, I posted on Facebook about my leech experiment ending. I still think it had merit but I didn’t have the time and even for me, it was pretty yucky. I love to breed bugs and my leeches have laid eggs so that’s a win but I think I will be taking them along to the AES exhibition at the end of September and finding them a new home. I have to conclude that they are pretty savage little creatures but cute in their own way.
Photo - Preparations for daily hedgehog feeding
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