Thank you to all who sent me a welcome - I especially liked the one telling me I had my priorities right! Nice one.
Often go out 1st thing in just my nightie slippers & dr. Gown, to feed the birds before I have my own breakfast, so I know what you mean. Not today though!! (bbbrrrr.....)
Hi Lindybird
Me too! I often wonder what the neighbours think when I enter the garden in fluffy polker-dot dressing gown and blue wellies with bird scoop in hand filling up the feeders! In fact the birds are so used to me dressed like that, that when I do go out to feed them when properly dressed they fly away in fright!!!
Regards
Kerry
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At least I get fully dressed before going in the garden to fill up the feeders, inc the Squirrel one. (Decoy feeding), I have visions of me getting locked out, although impossible with the kind of doors i have.
My main problem is I get carried away and start pottering about in the garden, when my feet start getting soggy, thats the point I notice i've still got my slippers on.!
I just can't compete with the ' haute couture' of Lindybird and Kezmo. My husband fills the feeders etc.
I do not go out in the mornng until I'm dressed but I do wander around very late at night checking all the feeders etc and making sure they all have enough to eat until I get to them in the morning - I used to disturb the woodpigeons who all sleep in my scots pine tree but they've got used to me now! Perhaps the RSPB could design some 'birdie' warm night wear then more of us could join in with the 'haute couture' of the early morning bird feeding!
It's a very liberating experience Brenda - you should try it some time! Entertaining for the neighbours too, they don't get out much so it's the least I can do!
Unknown said: It's a very liberating experience Brenda - you should try it some time! Entertaining for the neighbours too, they don't get out much so it's the least I can do!
I don't wear a nighty even - just pink fluffy dressing gown and slippers. My bird table is next to a dividing fence, and I have to climb on a rustic seat to replenish it, which means I am in full view of the street, never mind the neighbours! One morning my neighbour was walking up his path next to said fence. He clocked me and said "You're looking good this morning!" He should talk - he was shovelling coal for his narrow boat and was covered in soot.
Feeding my birds is the very first thing I do, every morning, whatever the weather. Then I can sit and have my breakfast whilst watching them.
Cheers, Linda.
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LOL Sparrow!
I wish I'd been there to see it!! LOL
I always feel really guilty if I don't go out and do the birds first. Not sure why but I can't sit and watch them all in the garden waiting for me to feed them for long. OH is often bemoans he's third in line, he has to wait for me to do the birds, then the cat (he should really be last as he could quite easily live off his own body fat for 6 months without going hungry) and then I will feed my OH!!!
Unknown said: I just can't compete with the ' haute couture' of Lindybird and Kezmo. My husband fills the feeders etc.
Does he wear a fluffy polka-dot dressing gown and blue wellies.....?
The necessity of bird-watching is a really good reason for avoiding all forms of housework.
The dust will still be there tomorrow - the birds may not be!
Ok, I will try and get up first and shock OH, as he is always up first and feeds the birds, then he brings me tea in bed. We are not overlooked, so neighbours are not a problem, but I would have loved to have been a bird on the fence when Sparrow met her neighbour.