Keith had seen a bird of prey yesterday in the garden, and it had attacked one of our little sparrows, which was a bit worrying. He said he hasn't seen the birds at all for a couple of days, and the food we've put out has been untouched. This might explain the little dead sparrow we saw last weekend with an injury to its throat, so this is not good news. We've come to love seeing the birds about, even if one of them has an annoying constant cheep! We haven't even seen blackbirds or pigeons, so we're a bit sad.
We cut the lawn and then put a load of unwanted items into the boot of my car to take to the tip, including two bags of garden rubbish. Our garden bin rubbish charge has jumped up to £55 for the year, which I think is outrageous seeing as it's only emptied once every two weeks, and not at all over Christmas and the New Year! We have dispensed with the services this year, and have been to the tip twice with garden rubbish since April!
When we arrived at the recycling centre - to give it its proper name! - there was a queue, and do you know which skip was the busiest? The garden waste skip! We also dropped off plastics, small electrical items, textiles and cardboard, so I don't think any of our waste ended up in the landfill skip, which was great. As we started to unload, it began to rain and then came down really hard! Typical! But at least we'd mowed the lawn!
Back home, I tidied up the garage and then cleaned our double hob hotplate, which had been languishing in the garage and was greasy and filthy. It had come in so useful when the kitchen was being renovated, and will no doubt be used again if we need it.
Sophie was getting ready for her weekend away with Vikesh and he came to collect her at midday. They're off to an Airbnb in Lincolnshire so I'm hoping they'll have a lovely time!
Keith made me lunch and afterwards, I ventured out into the garden again, to try and tidy up the area behind the garage. This is a neglected and shaded area that I'm always a little wary of, as we discovered the rat's nest in the compost bin... There were huge weeds growing in the overspill from the compost so I pulled them all out and tidied up in the gorgeous sunshine. The weather is more like April at the moment with the sunshine and showers!
I had a long soak in the bath in the afternoon, and when I went back downstairs afterwards, the garden was full of birds again! The sparrows were back and I saw a pigeon and one of our collared doves who is never far away. We saw the dove earlier on the roof of next door's house, but we were really glad to see the sparrows back!
Keith and I played cards with a drink and we had a very simple Tesco Finest dinner. We were going to watch a film after dinner but we made do with the athletics instead!
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