14 October, 2010




Thought for today:
Life is too short to buy cheap binoculars.
Ferries:  All as normal today.
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Wet or Dry: 
Dry throughout the day.


Sunny or Cloudy:
It's overcast today but might just burn off during the afternoon.

Night Sky
Clear and more stars than grains of sand on the beach.
The constellation Orion rises in the south  at midnight and is a joy to see.
Jupiter is still the brightest planet and rises early evening. It can clearly be seen in the south after dark.
The Milkyway is pointing southwest to northeast

Temperature: 
A chilly start  to the morning but lovely for walking.

Windy or Still:
No wind.

Sea Condition:
Calm.

Tides  - approx: 
High:
Low:    04.47
High :  10.52
Low:    17.18
High:   23.21
Using 24 hour clock

Barn Owl
Red Flanked Bluetail
Red Throated Pipit
Red Backed Shrike
Pied Flycather
Ring Ouzel
All on 10th October 2010, reported by John Lynch

Chickens x 5:  Maggie; Oraiste; Teapot; Billybob; Ginger  
Plumage: looking good (haven't moulted since I had them)
Billybob is looking better after treatment but might need more attention later today.

Eggs: 3

Flowers
Roses looking lovely  - pink and gorgeous..
Fuschia is still a delight and full of bees buzzing.
Marigolds are gorgeous.

Too many flowers to mention them all.

Vegetables from the walled garden
Lettuce
Onion
Carrots
Spinach
Cabbage
Beetroot
Potatoes
Planted turnips
We had tomato,carrot, and onion soup a few evenings ago and it was lovely mmmmm!

Water Shortages
Please use water sparingly as water is still rationed on Cape

Fishing:  
The surface of the harbour was boiling with fish but they wouldn't tkae the bait when I went for a bit of fishing. Someone said they thought they looked like mullet rather then mackerel.

Books:    Currently reading: 
Henry Martyn Field's History of the Atlantic Telegraph, published 1866:
The story of the heroic struggle to connect America with Europe. 

Terry Coleman's Passage to America, published 1972.       


Favourite Poems:
Grace O'Malley, the warrior queen of Ireland, is said to have met Queen Elizabeth, the tyrant of England, on equal terms. I wonder what Grace thought about Liz as a poet?
Here's my favourite, although there is no proof that it was actually written by Liz.


'When I was fair and young'


When I was fair and young and favour graced me;
Of many was I sought their mistress for to be.
But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore,
Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere,
Importune me no more.

How many weeping eyes I made to pine in woe;
How many sighing hearts I have no skill to show;
Yet I the prouder grew, and answered them therefore,
Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere,
Importune me no more.

Then spake fair Venus' son, that proud victorious boy,
And said, you dainty dame, since that you be so coy,
I will so pluck your plumes that you shall say no more
Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere,
Importune me no more.

When he had spake these words such change grew in my breast,
That neither night nor day I could take any rest.
Then, lo!  I did repent, that I had said before
Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere,
Importune me no more.
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