Well Hello to everyone.
We hope you are all well, healthy, happy and getting into the Christmas spirit with great vigour and gusto. We can already hear those Christmas tunes playing away spreading cheer, creating smiles and causing those toes to be a tapping. Come on all you bah humbuggers (we checked it is a word honest), trying to spread your negative humbuggery (found that too and just had to use it, sounds very Carry On if you ask me, shout out to Barbara Windsor who will be sadly missed). We are sure even you have to admit, that this year above all others, a good injection of Christmas joy is needed. So as soon as you can get yourselves cosy, snuggle up with maybe a alcoholic beverage (in moderation of course), something savoury and something sweet (go on it's Christmas, you know you want to) and put on those Chrissy songs and dream a dream of better days to come. May we all at this time remember all those who are no longer with us, all those that we may not see but who are still in our hearts and all those that are right by our sides. Christmas always makes us think of Dickens and A Christmas Carol (for me "Mr" the muppets version still rates highly. You just can't take the boy out of the man. Does anybody else feel just like a large kid, pretending to be an adult?). So to end the blogs for this year, once again may we say in our best Dickensian voices May we wish you a Merry Christmas and to one and all a Happy New Year.
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Well who would believe it, in the blink of an eye it will be Christmas.
We hope you have all your presents organised. I am guessing that a certain online selling company has been doing rather better than it's jungle named counterpart. In fact all online sales have probably been doing rather better than their high street counterparts for that matter too. There is now some hope on the horizon with the advent of working vaccines which may just help us return to some kind of normality. It would be really nice to see some of the people that we haven't seen for a long, long time. However many people now face an uncertain Christmas and the New Year could be just as bad. Companies have folded in the wake of covid and unemployment has and will continue to rise. So if you have ended up with reduced hours or no hours at all our thoughts go out to you. Many people have also found Covid and the confinement difficult to deal with mentally. Our thoughts go out to you too. Whoever you are, wherever you are in the world and whatever your circumstances are, we hope you will be able to celebrate your festivities (whatever they may be), for us it is Christmas. We also hope that the New Year will provide new hope for all and the promise of better things to come. On a lighter note we hope that Santa will bring you all the gifts that you wish for. Don't forget the gift of love is equally as special. Mid November we started to see a special visitor in our back garden. After watching Autunmwatch and listening to Mr Packham talking about leucistic badgers, we had an inkling that this is a Leucistic Sparrow. Some further investigation on a very well know search engine, that rhymes with floogle, seems to have confirmed our suspicions. However if anybody knows better than us and maybe it isn't a sparrow at all please let us know. This particular sparrow is very hard to get a photograph of as it is very nervous of people. This is the best of only two images we have been able to capture in all this time. I have to confess the normal sparrow next to our visitor has been added during the edit for context. As we said our leucistic friend has been very elusive. We did want to show the difference between normal and leucistic though, hence the edit. The colours are as close to true to life as possible. Please remember the colours you see may not be the same due to differences in viewing mediums. The sparrow is a much lighter almost tan colour, you really do see the difference even from a distance. |
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