2025 - What I did today

Thanks for the update Vinny. We had a look on line and decided to stick to wood and the brigiettes we buy from the Fuel merchant.

Thanks for the update Vinny.  We had a look on line and decided to stick to wood and the brigiettes  we buy from the Fuel merchant.

Good plan............exactly what I will be doing but it was an interesting experiment which cost very little to play about with!

Managed some time in the garden, before and after the downpour!
Pulled up montbretia and periwinkle. Snapped up lots of dead raspberry canes. Surprising number of raspberry canes in flower in November.
Picked an apple to munch on - still quite a few on the trees.
Ted showed a lot of interest under a bench in GH4 - where we store kindling in old wastebins. Sure enough, in an empty bin, there was a little mouse and another very dead/?half eaten mouse. They may have fallen in and been unable to climb out. I tipped them out into the border and warned it not to come back.

Finally cleared the remainder of the cut down shrubs (I had to wait until the garden waste bins were emptied). PS, I only put the big branches, seedheads, ivy & brambles in the bin. Small twiggy stuff is chopped and dumped on the soil as a mulch.
Quite pleasant outdoors this morning.

Found a heavy pot for my amaryllis to sit in.

Three hours fishing at Blyth from 9.00 til 12.00. I had to get up at 5.00am though to get there with Kato in the motorhome!

Caught 21 whiting,6 flatties and two crabs! All undersize and returned, apart from one where some chinese person wanted it for thier crab net?

Enjoyable morning with bacon, eggs and coffee cooked in motorhome before returning home knackered and stinking of fish.

Watched a seal in the water who seemed to be fattening himself up with fish that were returned!

Nothing so adventurous as Vinny. Cutting down brown, digging up mushy stuff, digging out grape hyacinths and bluebells when found.

Three hours fishing at Blyth from 9.00 til 12.00. I had to get up at 5.00am though to get there with Kato in the motorhome!

Caught 21 whiting,6 flatties and two crabs! All undersize and returned, apart from one where some chinese person wanted it for thier crab net?

Enjoyable morning with bacon, eggs and coffee cooked in motorhome before returning home knackered and stinking of fish.

Watched a seal in the water who seemed to be fattening himself up with fish that were returned!

 Looking at Blyth and it's relationship to Durham, P mentioned the Blyth Staithes, which are now gone. Further browsing found this pic which took my fancy.

Old Factory By A River

The launching of the World Unicorn, Wallsend, North Tyneside, England, 1973

   

Looks like a Cat to me, not a Unicorn?

I was fishing about 200 yards from this monstosity of a sculpture. Don't think it is owt to do with a unicorn though? Reminds me of a Captain Nemo octopus!