Travels with my camera

I am so sick of the things now. I daren't open a door or a window without immediately having half a dozen or so of the sodding things everywhere. I'm sick of letting them out. I'm sick of the way they fly at your face and round your hair. I'm also sick of my throbbing finger where one bastard stung me at lunchtime. The first time I've been stung for years, I knew it would happen sooner or later though. I was making my sandwich for lunch, and the bloody thing actually landed on it, I swept at it with my hand and it got me. Why do they do it? Bees don't keep flying in your face and all round you, surely they are attracted by the same sort of scents, but they just stick to collecting pollen.

Cut all the grass this morning, took Emma down the river this afternoon. Only in Wales could you sit down on your favourite rock in the sunshine, dangling your feet in the water, and see that someone else had left a carrier bag and two haversacks at the same place, and were half a mile further down river, out of sight of aforementioned bags, and yet not have someone walk off with them. The woman and her kids and dog turned up after about ten minutes.

Best thing today was the juvenile woodpecker on my peanut feeder at 7.15 this am. Got up to make a coffee as I'd been awake since 6.20 and gave up trying to get back to sleep on my instrument of torture (the new bed) Four nights now of agony. Well I think I may have sussed it for tonight. The way it was supposed to be assembled was to have the "sprung" (hahahaha) wooden slats fitted into the supports with an upward bow to the wood sorta like this ^ ^ ^ ^ (but more rounded, there ain't the right symbol on a keyboard) Well this means that laying on the bed, even with a super soft mattress like mine, you can feel a rounded lump pushing upwards. Well I thought bugger this for a game of soldiers this morning, and I've turned all the slats down the other way, so that they are more like v v v v v . So now the mattress has a nice body-shaped sag downwards, and having tested it out for a couple of minutes, certainly feels like it may be an improvement. Tonight will tell anyway. I'm almost looking forward to going to bed now to try it! Tomorrow the old base is going to the dump, so it will be too late to change my mind, it's already in my car loaded up to go. I phoned the council yesterday, £5 to take three items, which was more than reasonable, but they can't do it until September! I can't leave it outside on the pavement that long ffs!

Well I was going to post pictures of the woodpecker, but having now tried for five times (and I am using Firefox) this stupid blogger won't load any photos yet again, just keep getting DONE and there is nothing there. I now give up. They are on Garden Bird section of BBF if anyone wants to see it. Bollox to blogger.com, get your act together please. :(