22-08-2019, 06:52 AM
"I would guess that the birds have had them all round here though." Unless your ears are dicky like mine mate, your older than me yes?
We get cowslips, red/white clover, meadowsweet, silver weed, plantain and a few others Tracy on the verges round about, however the local laird (thinks he is) and his missus "I've got a new sit on mower and I'm gonna use it" like to see the place "tidy", so any umbilifers like cow parsley, hogweed, moon carrot etc get strimmed or otherwise tidied up. Yep, seen lots of butterflies around this year, but then I too try and leave a lot of my garden wild with a big crop of nettles at the bottom of the garden. Ladybirds are having a basd time what with the Harliquin ladybird killing them off and interbreeding, bummer. Looked at that site, interesting, it says grasshopper song is at 12-20khz, really!? that would explain things. He also says "I find it poetic that there are sounds that are connected to the process of aging. The disappearance is somehow a reminder of our limited, transient existence." Poetic? My knees creek, my back aches and I keep forgetting who/what things are, so am reminded daily of my transient existence and my impending death, I find this neither poetic or cosmic, daft b*gger.
A nice bit of countryside Amelia is good for the soul, well done your next door neighbour. If yon men in suits try to get the land for "development" there are still enough activists around to cause them grief, my days of sleeping in trees and holes in the ground are long gone, but I'm up for sabotage and protest, and from what I can gather there are loads of young uns who'd help out. Anyroad, let's hope it doesn't come to that.
Andy.
We get cowslips, red/white clover, meadowsweet, silver weed, plantain and a few others Tracy on the verges round about, however the local laird (thinks he is) and his missus "I've got a new sit on mower and I'm gonna use it" like to see the place "tidy", so any umbilifers like cow parsley, hogweed, moon carrot etc get strimmed or otherwise tidied up. Yep, seen lots of butterflies around this year, but then I too try and leave a lot of my garden wild with a big crop of nettles at the bottom of the garden. Ladybirds are having a basd time what with the Harliquin ladybird killing them off and interbreeding, bummer. Looked at that site, interesting, it says grasshopper song is at 12-20khz, really!? that would explain things. He also says "I find it poetic that there are sounds that are connected to the process of aging. The disappearance is somehow a reminder of our limited, transient existence." Poetic? My knees creek, my back aches and I keep forgetting who/what things are, so am reminded daily of my transient existence and my impending death, I find this neither poetic or cosmic, daft b*gger.
A nice bit of countryside Amelia is good for the soul, well done your next door neighbour. If yon men in suits try to get the land for "development" there are still enough activists around to cause them grief, my days of sleeping in trees and holes in the ground are long gone, but I'm up for sabotage and protest, and from what I can gather there are loads of young uns who'd help out. Anyroad, let's hope it doesn't come to that.
Andy.
