Onward and upward

What a week!!

One job out the way, a six hour round  trip to Worcester for a very constructive meeting.

Also had a look for the first time at our fishery at Bransford.What a great looking stretch of the Teme and it looks like the giant weed has received some treatment!

Time to concentrate on the  magazine.

Still no time for fishing, although I  am awaiting an approval to fish an estate lake near Lincoln tomorrow.
I'm going somewhere anyway whatever a first light session.The local song thrush wakes me earlier enough!!

Harold Hill trip later in the week for  a few days.


Knucker


Thank you Sir Alan Sugar, for a new word he uses to describe those that are always bitching but do nothing themselves. I have met a few of those Knucker's, no names no pack drill!!

Frosty garden


A big wack from the frost early this week has set the garden back.
The great deal of growth on the grape vines...gone! The maples showing brilliant colour from their new leaf growth gone, well now all tinged with brown edges. The beech hedge planted last year also had all the new leaves singed
Cast not a clout until May is out is about right. That north easterly wind was bitter and cutting and deflected around my garden hitting most plants at well above ground level.

The great tit's are active, looking back to my first ever blog (it's almost a year), it appears that the young were hatched somewhere near the end of the month, they may be a bit earlier this year.
Two blackbirds seen building new nests in the front and back gardens yesterday, leads me to think that earlier nests may have failed as a result of the cold snap.

Two water butts refilled, salad seeds sown, grass needs cutting and the field next door has once again a great crop of cow parsley and stinging nettle.