That was before the Big Lockdown. And despite the deluded 'past-the-peak' rhetoric, I'm not expecting to be doing a lot of travelling in the near future.
So, when a Zoom-free-Friday is available one simply has to make do.
One can start the day with the proscribed 'exercise hour' - in my case I will, inevitably, have a camera in hand. Today I was revisiting some of the Headington lanes - at this time of year, the bonus is that the wild flowers along the lanes change on a daily basis. At the moment the lanes have a green-and-white theme going, and specifically a garlic theme - with both wild garlic (ramsons or ramps, in some places) and three-cornered garlic much in evidence.
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| Green and White |
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| Wild Garlic |
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| Three-cornered Garlic |
Although I can't quite figure why this meant I needed to have three cameras floating around the desk.
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| Cameras for most purposes |
Having taken and sorted through the images, next priority is bird watching (in the garden) - we have a very regular gang of house sparrows, starlings and magpies around the feeders, with very often jackdaws and robins, and occasionally other cast members too. Today's special guests were a pair of goldfinches.
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| Seed mix, buggy nibbles and meal worms - to suit most avian palates |
All these visitors drop in to make use of the bird buffet - keeping it filled is close to a full time job at times. And yes, there is Nyjer seed too, to keep the goldfinches happy.
The good news is that I'm sticking with my regular No-Mow-May routine, so I can leave grass cutting off the to do list for at least another month.
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| No Mow May |
Have photographed the garlic and fed the birds, the only agenda item left is exploration.
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| OS Landranger 21 |
Today's exploration was around Tain in Ross & Cromarty. It's where my Mackenzie ancestors come from - and I've been doing a bit more family history exploring - I'm currently back to about the 1730s (which is about 7 generations back - where there were a lot of agricultural labourers floating around the family).
And the Shetland link? - today I did come across a possible(?) distant relative who wound up emigrating to Canada, where she married a chap from Lerwick in the Shetland Islands - more research needed.
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| OS Landranger 4 |
It's alway useful to have a relevant Ordnance Survey sheet to hand - even (or perhaps especially) if you can't actually get there.
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