Today just a couple of photos. Friday there was a bumble bee 'asleep' in a flower. As it was early morning, I knew it was cold and so administered life saving honey on a wet piece of kitchen paper. Sometime later it had flown away. If I have something to worry about at this time of the year it is the survival of the bumblebee.
There is one of those memes around, 'when they disappear, you will disappear' hand pollination doesn't work on a large scale.
Can it be true that we are told to eat venison in this time of poverty for so many. Two drowned fawn were pulled out of the lock on the canal yesterday - well there's a start. With Starmer dithering in the background and the Conservatives scared to take any action and mouthing emptily to the media - where do we go from here?
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| Oxeye daisies, perennial geraniums and ladies mantle guard the bushes of red currant and gooseberry bushes alongside the canal. |
Answer: bribe people to vote for them - bricks for benefits - stoke up house prices even more.
ReplyDeleteFond memories of a horse-drawn barge trip on that canal. Amazed how easy it was for the horse - one of the Tetleys Brewery museum ones, which has now closed.
Sometimes I wonder if it is not deliberate policy to keep people dangling on a string all the time, or is it because the conservatives don't know what to do? The canals had such a short life, but fulfil some people's dream nowadays.
DeleteBeautiful canal tow path. Round where we lived they were scruffy rubbish strewn eyesores.
ReplyDeleteCommunity action clears our footpaths Tigger, normally the Canadian geese forage around on the edge of the canal, eating all the grass.
DeleteI think they are culling a lot of deer and would like people to eat them. It should be the same price as beef, but I bet it isn't. Mail order only, I hear.
ReplyDeleteWell you are more likely to buy it in Waitrose than Lidl, not exactly the cheapest of meats.
DeleteI heard someone say on radio that we should all be eating more venison - I thought the remark was an insult in these days of food banks.
ReplyDeleteSome are already comparing it to 'let them eat cake' but Johnson and his foolishness never learns Pat.
DeleteBeautiful canal bank; since moving from Leicestershire to Cornwall, I miss canal-side walks with all the flora and fauna. Ox-eye daisies appear randomly all over my garden every year, many from between slabs and other strange places, rather than growing in the soil. I do enjoy them.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, I understand that you shouldn't give honey to the bees; a little sugar water on a piece of kitchen towel is always gladly lapped up by tired bees. https://www.beevive.com/howtosaveatiredbee#:~:text=When%20you%20think%20of%20bees,that%20affects%20the%20bee%20larvae.
Thank you Rambler I will keep that in mind when next I find a tired bee.
DeleteWhat a rather lovely canal - red currents and gooseberries are my favourites too. No canals in Pembrokeshire though - the nearest must be almost a hundred miles at Brecon I think.
ReplyDeleteThey used a bigger stretch of water on the Pembrokeshire coast Mark, everything went by sea down to Bristol. You are right it is a pleasant sight, I shall pay a monthly sum for its upkeep, a problem which I have been dithering about.
DeleteWe have miles and miles of towpath around us. Once upon a time our canal was the reason goods moved to market, near and far. Today the towpaths are converted to hiking and biking trails.
ReplyDeleteAs for venison, I am still under the notion that the death of a deer is punishable by flogging or worse by the gamekeeper. It's not a meat I care for.
No medieval rules for the killing of deer Joanne, it is only swans under the protection of the Crown. There are an awful lot of deer in England, but I would hate to think of them becoming free range kill.
DeleteHere in the USA we have deer seasons when people can get a tag from the state conservation department to hunt deer. I have read several bloggers who are given venison by relatives or friends who share the meat with them and some people have hunters in the family. I tried venison when I was a child and I can still remember the different way it tasted from beef.
ReplyDeleteWhen my daughter used to work in an office that had occasional potluck lunches, she ate a small serving of a casserole that one of her coworkers had brought in. Two or three days later my daughter overheard the casserole making coworker talking about how she and her husband would pick up roadkill and skin it and prepare it to use for their meat supply and saved a lot of money that way. My daughter said it made her feel woozy when she heard that, but she never got sick from the casserole serving that she ate, maybe it had been roadkill casserole or not. But my daughter doesn't have servings from any potluck offerings since then unless she knows the person who made it really well.
Occasionally people in this country also use roadkill but it is normally the back to nature people. Problem is meat eating is being usurped by veganism or vegetarianism. Not that I think that is a bad idea at all. Our countryside is flooded with farm raised pheasants, but not much gets to the shops and deer is considered the rich man's fodder....
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