The Bloggler

This week’s Terri's Webster's Sunday Stills photo challenge is all about fur and feathers.  Here are my furry and feathered offerings.  See other entries by visiting Terri's site .      Look at me, I'm an angel too!     Mum and kitten chilling, in hotel grounds, Sirmione, Italy     Wild cat watching tourists in Nerja, Spain Happy dog at Tandle Hill Country Park    Furtive Squirrel on my garden fence      Swan-ing about at Lake Garda, Italy    Noisy Geese in Delph, Oldham      Hungry seagulls in Aldeburgh, Suffolk (they could smell our fish and chips)    Seagull watching the boats at Walberswick, Suffolk    Duck Family  Duck central, somewhere in Lincolnshire       Feeding the pigeons, Heraklion, Crete

Unrelated photo of Tandle Hill Country Park, Oldham So, we’re a couple of days into Lockdown 2.  And what’s different?  Not much as far as I can see.  It doesn’t seem like a lockdown.     Nearly everything is still open and there is traffic and people everywhere.   It’s business as usual without pubs and restaurants and a few ‘non-essential’ shops.   All that’s happened is that the Government has taken away our luxuries and stopped us having fun. When escaping your home, the most fun you can have inside with yourself or member of your household, is to browse the clothes, books and homeware etc. in your local supermarket, or you can visit the garden centre to look at stuff that has nothing to do with gardens.  I wouldn’t normally regard supermarkets as a fun day out (its a get in and straight out operation for me) but when boredom sets in on this scale you can understand the appeal.  The trouble is, the big supermarkets are so busy in L...

  Tandle Hill, Oldham Today was a good day!   For the first time since lockdown started, my wife and I were able to see our daughter who lives 28 miles away.   (It would have been a perfect day if we could have also seen our grandchildren and son-in-law but hopefully we will be allowed to do that soon.)   She came to meet up with us for a walk to Tandle Hill Country Park – one of her and our favourite local haunts. The park is a 48 hectare expanse of mixed woodland and grassland in Royton, Lancashire - just 5 minutes walk from our house away along a very pleasant country track. The weather was glorious: ultra bright sunshine and deep blue skies which only served to make the greenery even greener.     At the summit of Tandle Hill we gazed out over the Pennines uplands at towards the Yorkshire boundary, and over Rochdale, Oldham and the Manchester plain.   In the distance we could see Jordrell Bank radio telescope in 25 miles away to the sou...