Birdwatching

This weekend was the RSPB's annual garden birdwatch event.

Essentially you make a cup of tea, sit at your cosiest window and watch the birds that come and use your garden. You write down how many birds of one type are in the garden at one time, then submit the highest figure.

Aspen and Alexa helped check my counting.

"Well, she's got a pterodactyl on here... that can't be right... can it?"

And Aspen did the uploading.

"Yep... click that one... No... over there..."

Here's my list from this year:

1 Long Tailed Tit
5 Blue Tits
1 Greenfinch
3 Great Tits
1 Fat (wood) Pigeon
1 Starling
2 Blackbirds
2 Robins
22 House Sparrows
3 Dunnocks
4 Chaffinches
1 Coal Tit
3 Stupid (Collared) Doves
1 Magpie
1 Song Thrush
3 Goldfinches
1 Bagpuss

 Not bad for an hour!

Introducing Alexa

The family is continuing to grow... not through any fault of mine, I should add!

Glasses! 

This is Alexa. She's a Nicky Lad, and was entirely selected and purchased by the Bloke as a Christmas present without ANY prompting from me*.

Top: "On Blythe Street". Skirt: Homemade.
Glasses and boots: Stock. Socks: Chicki.co.uk

Apparently he chose her as she's the one that he'd buy if he was 'buying a doll for himself'.

Don't get excited, it's a computer desktop background!

He likes her glasses and boots. This is good, because I rather like them too :)


*I am generally entirely unhelpful when it comes to Christmas present suggestions. "What do you want for Christmas/your birthday?" is a question that invariably gets a silly answer.