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bunnWalked the dogs at 8:30 this morning, which was far too late. There was still dew on the grass, but goodness it was hot!
The hawthorn trees are covered in mayblossom, mostly white with a delicate shading of pink, and the hedges are blue, white and pink with bluebells, stitchwort and red campion. (A pity that red campion flowers are actually pink rather than red, as the name suggests. Otherwise the hedges would have their own natural bunting for the Jubilee next weekend: cost-effective and ecologically friendly!) Many of the fields are full of shining buttercups, and the most decorative fields have a yellow mist of buttercups floating against a field of daisies.
The pussy willows are shedding their seeds, and the air was full of tiny floating willow-fluffs, catching the light against the dark shadows of the trees. I saw a swift, and wondered how the swifts distinguish between tiny wispy willow-seeds, and tiny wispy insects. Perhaps they don't. Perhaps swifts eat a lot of accidental willow-down. I wonder if it is good for headaches, like the bark of the willow trees. I imagine swifts may be prone to headaches, since they are so very dark in colour and whizz about in the sun without wearing hats.
The hawthorn trees are covered in mayblossom, mostly white with a delicate shading of pink, and the hedges are blue, white and pink with bluebells, stitchwort and red campion. (A pity that red campion flowers are actually pink rather than red, as the name suggests. Otherwise the hedges would have their own natural bunting for the Jubilee next weekend: cost-effective and ecologically friendly!) Many of the fields are full of shining buttercups, and the most decorative fields have a yellow mist of buttercups floating against a field of daisies.
The pussy willows are shedding their seeds, and the air was full of tiny floating willow-fluffs, catching the light against the dark shadows of the trees. I saw a swift, and wondered how the swifts distinguish between tiny wispy willow-seeds, and tiny wispy insects. Perhaps they don't. Perhaps swifts eat a lot of accidental willow-down. I wonder if it is good for headaches, like the bark of the willow trees. I imagine swifts may be prone to headaches, since they are so very dark in colour and whizz about in the sun without wearing hats.
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Date: 2012-05-25 08:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-25 10:11 am (UTC)Az expects a walk at 5pm so he starts doing the 'lurcher wants a walk' dance, flings toys about and does a kind of breakdancing sort of thing where he rubs himself on the sofa and eventually ends up upside down. :-D Daft old beast.
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Date: 2012-05-25 08:21 pm (UTC)Shadow did 2 walks today - I think just coz he loves being with me and he tends to skip the evening walk as G does it and I'm always indoor. He's so sodding slow though.
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Date: 2012-05-25 09:51 am (UTC)LOL! I take it you weren't wearing a hat?
I hate hot. As you walk down the street, complete strangers say, "Isn't it marvellous?" and I want to throttle them :-)
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Date: 2012-05-25 10:18 am (UTC)I used to like hot summers when I was young and foolish (and lived in poorly-insulated draughty Victorian buildings but would rather be on the beach...) but I've gone off them a bit nowadays.
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Date: 2012-05-25 11:13 am (UTC)My face turns red. People say, "You've caught the sun!" No, I'm wearing industrial strength sunscreen; I'm just hot. It's horrible!
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Date: 2012-05-25 10:40 am (UTC)I was out at half six this morning and it was still too hot. But then I consider anything over 20 degrees C to be unBritish.
Hurrah for the pinko campions sabotaging the jubilee!
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Date: 2012-05-25 11:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-26 06:30 am (UTC)