A tiny strawberry, a wicker horse, abstract flower and flowers

 

 Bit of a mix of stuff here.

 

 

Flowers, yes still more of them

 

The next batch of flower pictures

 

 

Flowers ... yes more flowers...

 

 More from the last garden shoot.

 

 

More pictures to come

 

 I have more flowers and some other pics to come but I ran out of time to edit them as I had an event that needed editing first.  Over the next few days if I get time I'll post some more. Got a fair bit on this week though.

Washing trainers in washing machine

 

 

It's important to remember when washing trainers in your washing machine that you remove your feet before washing.... I wont make that mistake again! 

It wasn't so much the wash but bye heck the spin wasn't much fun.

Yet more flowers

 

 Some more of my flower shots from the last few weeks

 

 

More flowers, and watering cans

 

 A few more flowers.

 

 

The Welsh air ambulance

 

 Wales air ambulance on a call.

 

 

Flowers and water

 

 Yes back to flowers for a few days.

 

 

More Ford electrial woes!

 

 I've mentioned the joys of Fords electrial systems many times on this blog, and the fact I've never owned a Ford that hasn't had electrial troubles (and we wont go into the door locks of the 1970's and 80's) My current (joke intended) model has been a royal pain in the arse!

 Anyway the last few days my alarm has started going off, it turns out the cause is the bonnet expanding in the heat.  Yes hard to believe!

 For reasons best known to Ford my car has a bonnet alarm, why is anybodys guess, most other models dont have it.  It's not really needed as you need to get inside the car to open the bonnet in the first place.

 Long story short when the bonnet expands it trips the sensor which thinks the bonnet is open and bingo your alarm has gone off.

 Why Ford, just why????

An Owl, a Robbin and a Sparrow.

 Got these pics today of what I'm told is a tawny owl, a sparrow and a robbin.

Skydiving dangers you might not have thought about

 

 Back on July the 15th 2019 I posted about skydiving plane crashes, a supprisingly frequent cause of death for skydivers.

 In just the last week theres been two more crashes of skydiving aircraft, in one the I think 9 skydivers all died as it crashed on takeoff, in the second the plane crashed possibly after engine problems but the skydivers had all made it out before and no one died.

 But it does make you think, as if jumping out of an aeroplane in the first place isn't risky, just getting high enough to jump out has it's risks!

Really busy week so pics coming soon

 

 I've got a fairly busy week so there "should" be plenty of new pics coming soon.... I hope!  Trouble is it also means I'm shattered already and it's only bloody Tuesday.  Still it should be all over by sunday...If I make it that far....

Some flowers and a flock of cows

 

 Yes I know it's herd of cows but it's a standing joke to say flock, then someone says herd of cows, to which I reply of course I've heard of cows...   I'll get my coat...

Birds and berries

 

 Ok two pics off my phone.  Now the sky with birds is a real unaltered photograph, I've not added birds in photoshop or anything, thats how they were.  I've seen flocks of Starlings before, but this isn't Starlings it's a mix of crows and seagulls as far as I can tell.

More Covid stupidity!

 

 While talking to a friend the other day she showed me her COVID vaccination card, all well and good.... Except it's totally different to mine!

 Now we both had the same vaccination at the same place within days of each other, yet the cards look very different, mines around the size if the old passport and stiff card, her's is more like thick paper and the size of a credit card.  Now the NHS's official reason for these cards is "

An NHS COVID Pass shows your coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination details or test results. This is your COVID-19 status.

You may be asked to show your pass to get into some events, where the COVID Pass is being trialled, or to travel abroad."

 Now as the card is being used to prove you've had the vaccination it might make more sense to have a standard card, and theres no good reason why not.   

 In the UK where I live a bit over 34 million have had the jab.  Now that sounds a lot of cards to print, except the Daily Mail newspaper prints very nearly a million papers a DAY!,  Thats full newspapers, not a small card.  One page size would probaby print maybe 50 cards?  A few days or a week or three at a large printers could probably knock out the millions needed.

 Now your probably wondering why it matters, it matters because it's now really easy to fake a covid card, as nobody knows for sure what they all look like you dont even have to go to the trouble of forging one, just make something similar and it's good enough.

 Indeed over a 150 million Americans apparently have forged COVID cards (I couldn't find a figure for the UK)  But you get the idea.

Big footsteps, little footsteps and a light!

 

 I've mentioned before my world is weird, last night was no exception!

 I got home fairly late and on getting close to my house I see my sons main bedroom light is on.  No big supprise except he almost never uses it.  He tends to use a table lamp, or desk lights.

 I go in and start opening windows as it's stuffy and hot inside and find out he's not in.  No worries he's just left his light on.

 Down I go to put the kettle on and thats when I hear the screaming outside. Now it's not a person screaming but it's loud and sounds like someone it murdering a dog or cat or something.

 I grab my keys and out I go.  Now the screams and still going on " scream, scream, scream" over and over.  By now half the street is out looking at the dark woods at the end of my street.  (It's claimed it's called the dark woods after a number of hangings there, but I haven't found anyone who actually remembers one.).

 As I get about halfway to the woods the screams stop and I pick up a burly lad from a house I go past, he just tags along and says " I came through there earlier and we heard big footstpes but couldn't see anything" by now we've arrived at the edge of the woods.

 Now I always carry a torch and as I've been out earlier I have a small but really powerfull one in my shirt pocket. I head into the woods and burly lad stops dead at the edge and wont go any further, he's obviously worried about what might be in there.

 I make it about 30 metres and pick up eyeshine behind the trees and bushes (it's quite overgrown in there) moving right to left across in front of me.  Burly lad can also see it from the entrance of the woods and goes up an octave in voice shouting "what is it, what is it" at this point it crosses the path about 20 metres in front of me and I get a good view of a large fox.

 I shout back "it's a fox" and I start looking for whatever foxy was trying to eat (at least thats my best guess at this point)   I cant find anything, but then see another fox or maybe the same one who has doubled back peeping out behind a tree.  Now I wonder was if foxy was trying to scoff some poor animal or was Mr and Mrs foxy having a romantic evening?

 Anyway the mystery seems solved so I head back home to find my son wondering why I turned his beedroom light on?  I point out he must have left it on and he says he didn't, it was light when he left.  So it looks like the poltergeist is up and about again.... That or he forgot he left it on......

Yet again!

 

 Yet again I'm baffled why mouth wash needs a child proof top and whisky doesn't!

Food pictures

 

 I know theres been a gap but I've been really busy the last week or so, so heres a few food pictures to go on with until I get time to post something else.