Good Morning Early Birds!

[waterboatman]

Tuesday. Still a bit quiet in wildlife land. They will be wary for a while. The dawn chorus was giving it some welly though! Singing their little hearts out. Lovely to hear.

It seems some of the lads found where the wannabes had their caravans, five of them, and suggested it wouldn't be a good idea to be there in ten minutes time!

They left. It seems they couldn't stand the embarrassment of four eejits in their twenties being sorted out by a bunch of geriatrics. :o} I love it! :o}

Life will return to normal for the wildlife, but it will take time.

Foxy was in at 10.30 for his supper. He was hungry as he ate the bred out for the birds as well. Gutsy little tramp!

Tiggy and mrs. were in at 1.15. It's really sweet to see the way he looks after her, feeding her before he feeds himself and making sure she has a frink from the dish. Then he took her for a tour of the garden, stopping and looking just like a tour guide explaining things to her. He's never done that before.

The sun is up and it's going to be a fine day. It can stay like this all year round for me! :o}

Have a happy day everyone.

[murraymints]

Morning boaty xx have redirected the gang here !!!

[waterboatman]

Morning minty xxx You only do that to get three extra xxx's don't you! ;o}

Ta. :o}

[albaqwerty]

Goodly morning Boaty xx Minty xx

and to everyone who pops in xxxx

Boaty, hope they spread the word to any other numpties who might think they can go near your area with evil thoughts, that they will not be welcome.

Flying visit, will be back in a bit xxx

[murraymints]

Really hot here already..helps the paint to dry! Set off the carbon monoxide alarms with fumes from the varnish yesterday !

Oh having great time, phoned from his canoe in the middle of Loch Earn...leaves me in peace to get on !

Good that the troublemakers have moved on !

[waterboatman]

Morning albs xxx see you in a bit then. :o}

[murraymints]

Morning Albs xx

Don't want you to have to retype all that boaty ! :-)

[waterboatman]

minty you'll work yourself to death, so you will!

Yes, it's going to be another hot one. It can stay like this all year round for me! :o}

[waterboatman]

Not if I can help it minty. ;o} I honestly didn't see your post while I was typing. I'd pressed 'Submit' before I did, otherwise I would have Cut and Paste. :o}

[murraymints]

No probs boaty xx

[janbee]

Morning all xx
Boaty, good news about the thugs. Hope they've gone for good and not to get reinforcements. I'm sure The Boaty Gang will still sort them out though !
Apart from a million noisy seagulls, it was quite a quiet night here on the wildlife front.
I've been out for a wander along the seafront so I'm now home for a cuppa.

[murraymints]

Morning Jan xx walks along the promenade at Portobello...miss that now I've left joppa !

[waterboatman]

Morning jan xxx They won't be back, word has gone around.

It's a lovely morning for a walk indeed. I shall be out again later, annoying some shop keepers. :o}

[janbee]

Oh yes minty, a day out at Porty!. A ride on the bid dipper thing(VERY rickety and unsafe!), fish and chips etc I LOVED all that as a child. I was closer to Silverknowes and Cramond though so we used to go there more often. Very nice but more boring for a kid. My local beach was Granton at The Harbour but I believe that was closed off some time ago to build hideous flats. There also used to be a small beach at Royston which was something of a dump but I loved going there because there was always chalk being washed up in that area so I had loads of freebie chalk I could flog off to my chums. I was a merciless little sod.

[janbee]

Minty, did you know that The 99 was invented at 99 Portobello High Street? There are many variations of that invention but that's the one I'e I've always believed. There was an ice cream shop there and the owner had some broken cadbury flakes and put them onto the top of a cone and it became known locally as a 99, a speciality of the house. It caught on and circulated around the country and now cadbury make "99 flakes". As I say, it's just one of the many stories re 99s but I'm going with it.

[murraymints]

Silverknowes when I lived in main street at Davidsons Mains....just a hop away...Granton has changed hugely this last 20 years or so.... but then so has most of Edinburgh :-(

[waterboatman]

a budding super salesgirl jan :o}

My dad was in the army, so we moved around a lot. the happiest time was in the middle of nowhere in Leicestershire. A lot of time spent ploughing about the place on horeseback. Wonderful. I went to eight different schools.

[murraymints]

Hadn't heard that one Jan ! But the award winning haggis shop and st Andrews chippie still going strong !!

[wendilla]

Good morning WBMXXX and all xxx nice here just how I like it . Got my garden lad coming today to . I do a lot myself but beats me at times . So it will be all spic and span again. Its bad that people cant leave animals alone to live in peace.

[murraymints]

Morning lady chatterley....I mean Wendi xx ....! Lol...

[waterboatman]

Morning wendi xxx i could do with some help in the garden too. i.e. someone that know's what they are doing!

There is no need to hunt wild animals in this country.