The Green Menace!

A glorious afternoon spent cutting bracken in the rain. Only too happy to get rid of the tick infested, cancer causing, livestock poisoning, tree smothering menace.

Lyme...again.

Well, here we go with another course of antibiotics! Erithromycin this time. Thought they weren't going to knock me about this time but my joints have gone down hill very fast. Feeling a bit listless and confused. I was so much better last week. But never mind, the trend on the graph is definitely on the up, even if we have the odd glitch. At least the doctor has (grudgingly) accepted that it is Lyme, or else some other tick-bourne nasty.

The last check up also revealed a mole that had to come off, so that was good. Hospital waiting lists pah! The appointment came through for Monday!

Sigh of relief  about the fuel duty increase being dropped. Why do folks think that a government 'u turn' is a bad thing...surely it shows that they are listening.

Spent the day working next to a willow tree from where a willow warbler conducted a hate campaign against me. It spend the day berating me for having the audacity to be in the same county. I had to resort to Nickelback on the ipod.

Starting to see the first deer calves of the year tottering along after their dams. This is perhaps truly the beginning of the year for me.

What a Year

What a year for wildflowers and bird life. So many species in each field and verge it's difficult to count, fledglings fill the trees and bird song is a wall-to-wall sound track. The weather here on Skye this spring has been unusually kind too. Some weeks now of sunshine, the odd shower, low winds.

A sycamore tree this morning proved an interesting diversion. Looking up through it's verdant canopy one could see myriad flowers, each with it's own little helper. The bees filled the air and made it alive with their humming.