Monday 25 August 2014

Bitter Suite - Marillion

Whoever coined the phrase
Rain before 7, Dry by 11
 should be dragged before the Beak and
charged with Traducement under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968!
To my knowledge the continuous and heavy rain started at about 02:15 today and now, almost  mid-afternoon it continues as relentlessly as ever. At 04:44 precisely IT tripped the fuses in the homestead, which is the power source for the Electric Dustbin, and while there looks to be a decent catch via a glace through the perspex collar of each trap, thus far the contents remain untouched. Always an UP SIDE to any tale of woe, not given to eating breakfast at all let alone a cooked one, this morning I enjoyed a seared king prawn omelet dressed with just a hint of sweet chili sauce and accompanied by toasted wholemeal cheese bread and a cup of Douwe Egberts.
 On the outskirts of nowhere
On the ring road to somewhere
On the verge of indecision
I'll always take the roundabout way
Waiting on the rain
For I was born with a habit, from a sign
The habit of a windswept thumb
And the sign of the rain
It's started raining
Rain On Me!
A little remiss with some of our reports of late, we start this Post with a few 'Catch-Ups'. You may remember that at the end of our last issue we were dogged by a small technical hitch which didn't allow the revelation of the latest Harbins Garden Tick. While it is completely unimaginable that a
 COAL TIT
 has never appeared in this well stocked garden surrounded by
 some Pine, Birch, Willow, Oak, Ash and even Elm
 there seems to be no one who has seen or heard this Little Bird.
Next, and that is where a knowledgeable Readership comes in, we
hear from both Roy Norris (as predicted) and Janet Read on the 
subject of the 'unidentified Warship off the East Coast of Portland last week.
They were both in agreement that she is the
 Indonesian Navy's Multi-Roll Light Frigate
I.N.S. JOHN LIE
Janet goes on to report that over the last weekend she (the ship that is)
has been in Spanish waters and we can only wish her Bon Voyage!
Remaining in the Far East for a moment, on Saturday there was an
E-mail from my dear friends in Thailand 
JEAN FRANCOIS OZOUX
 and his wife
ROONG
 holding at arms length
AHACTULLA MYCTERIZANS
There seems to be some on-line confusion as to the Common Name
either
Long-nose Whip Snake or Big-eye Green Whip Snake
whichever the family group all go under the familiar name of
Vine Snakes.
Thank You to you LOVELY people.
I have replied to your mail but keep getting a 'Send Failed' signal.
 Much nearer to home and this 
HUMMINGBIRD HAWK-MOTH
was found on a Kitchen Wall in Weymouth and happily obliged with a
'in the hand' shot.
The last of the 'catch-ups' harks back to the 12th July when Dave Foot paid us 
another visit  and on that occasion he found evidence of breeding
 BORDERED STRAW
 Since then I have had 2 reminders to add it to the Property List
and both times failed to do so. Now in its rightful place as an addition to the
Property List it also displaces Blair' Mocha as the 300th Macro on the
Year List which now falls to
 SALLOW.
NOW, where were we, oh yes looking at yesterday's early morning
 CLOUD FORMATION
Again 'Cumulus' but nonetheless attractive for all that, above the
Willows looking every bit like the Himalayas.
Another Zero C on the gadget but another
couple of addition to the Property List, the most attractive
 RED UNDERWING
 which used to be an annual catch in Weymouth and
 CURRENT PUG
which I seem to recall we had here during one of Dave's visit which,
not unusually was overlooked.
While at the traps the throb of more ancient aircraft engines than
we are used to here alerted me to one of only 2 'flying' 
 LANCASTER BOMBERS
left in the World. A little late on arrival but a decent shot of the
Port Quarter
 but primed for the
HURICANE
that followed.
All of this noise seemed no deterrent to the small Male
 SPARROWHAWK
 that had landed behind the Tennis Court netting.
 At first it was thought to have prey
but NO it didn't.
Entry            Pageviews
United Kingdom
                  539
United States
                  352
Germany
                  123
Russia
                  109
China
                    19
France
                    15
Canada
                    12
Estonia
                    10
Ukraine
                      7
Australia
                      5