"Odds & Sods" (old version) - please add to the new thread 2020 instead !

lol Alan, I will need higher wages than that to help buy our new future rspb reserve but the M & S job would give me 20% discount which is more of an incentive !   The Rangers post sounds more interesting 

Can't be a lot of money in the kitty for even a much needed new hide as just seen latest newsletter that there is not going to be a replacement  Lower Hide at Leighton Moss,  just more repairs making it an even smaller hide :(          

@ Gaynor,  your skills may be needed for the LM Christmas Market if you read the bit about the band  !!  

A very blue sky day at Lackford Lakes on Wed.

The reflections in the water were very good, used Nigels trick with an iron on the water.

Hazel, If you and Mike and Alan each took a job I think you might have enough to buy the prospective new RSPB reserve in about 50 years or so, with possibly a few donations from other Forumates. But instead, how about lobbying all those local Footballers? You could tell them about the benefits of being in Nature for themselves and their children and mention the kudos they would receive from the publicity about their generosity to future generations and for the benefits to the local environment. Between all of them, they could buy the place tomorrow!

Sounds like a good venue for the groups Hazy, we would have fun with the birds keeping us in time, especially the Bitterns booming in the background:-)

My favourite 'incidental' there Bob, lovely female Kestrel ... mine seem to have abandoned the quarry!

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There's some untidy folk around these days!

Photo taken this morning of one of a pair of late Swallows, just stopped for a 5 minute wash & brush-up before carrying on with their migration