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Week Thirty-four – One Day At A Time

By theorkneynews on August 28, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

By Bernie Bell

Pics by McB

August the Twentieth……………….Cat’s Ear seed-head shining in the Sun…..Autumn approaches…..

August the Twenty-first…………………The Happy Seal says….Way-Hey!!!!!…..Well flippa ma’tail……

Sometimes, there’s more than one stand-out thing in a day…….

We were sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch, when Mike said to me to, very carefully, come round to his end of the table, and look out the window, over his left shoulder, which I did. There, on the wooden fence of the Alpine bed, was a female Sparrow hawk! Just standing there, with her feathers ruffling a bit in the breeze. We watched her for a few minutes then I carefully snuck away to get my camera, but when I got back, she’d gone. We reckon the nearby fuchsia bushes were full of sparrers staying very, very still and very, very quiet – or as much as sparrers are capable of doing so!

We’ve seen Sparrow hawks before, going over the garden, but never ‘stopping off’. We’re hoping she makes this part of her hunting route. I know – shame for the sparrers, but everything’s gotta eat.

August the Twenty-second………Four a.m. ………The Moon!…….Sometimes being up in the night can have its advantages!

August the Twenty-third…………….Here comes the Haar……Then it spread out and enveloped us…..Then it gathered together again…..And moved on…..

August the Twenty-fourth……………Good to see…….Barley ripening in the fields…….That’s food, that is…..

August the Twenty-fifth…….Phacelia in the Set-aside……Just….LOOK at it….The colour….The shapes…….And it’s all out there…..

August the Twenty-sixth………Finding something in each day to admire, enjoy or appreciate…..And today, here’s what happened….I finished an email with the words…. “Just been listening to ‘I Wish You Heaven’ by Prince, and so ….I wish you heaven……” Then realised – she might not be aware of Prince, and wondered what she’d find if she Googled that song, by him……So, I Googled it, and watched the video with a whole load of Prince videos down the side to choose from.

Slipping back some decades..…I had taped videos of Prince from the telly…..The tape was in the machine.…My cat, Souxie, pushed down on a lever with her paw, and somehow deleted the lot…..I reckon she was jealous, as I do love Prince.

I’m not really up to scratch with today’s world, and don’t always realise just what Google has to offer……I now have access to an absolute gold-mine of Prince videos to watch and listen to……That’s my stand-out thing for today.