Outdoorsy Shite - April Top Trumps

[GrimmaTheNome]

Rules as before - nature 'spots' fauna and flora, points for rarity (absolute or relative to where seen), seasonality, eloquence of description. Please declare if you're in forrin parts or a mermaid.

Did I cover everything?

I liked 'swelling crop buds' [saucy]

Yours almost rhymed a bit Ariel.

Nowt here today. Even my garden is barren. Nature is obviously saving itself up for a smorgasbord of spots while I am on the Lleyn next week.

Pheasant and a couple of waddling grouse.

Thinks there might be a wooden spoon as well as certificates....

Dashing rain
flooded drain
ducks swim in road
no sign of toad

Ooh, faux-naïf, dusty. I like it.

Oooooh high praise from the Outdoorsy poet in residence feel 10 again.

A hint of John Clare, perhaps.

It was assonance, Slubber

Yes of course assonance. Silly me.

blardy poncey mermaids and their wordy ways

So it's rhyming gone wrong? Have you seen Educatin Rita?

That's Educating with a g obviously.

Several sightings of the common brown bobble hat, and loads more weather Dp on nights, late home as road closed due to snow. No snow here but water on scullery floor, probably came in the rotten window frame
I did see a cockerel blown onto his bum this morning everything else appears to have blown away :)

arf at cockerel bum incident

a pair of Bullfinches lofted heavenwards by the gales this morning in my garden; I was glad because they were nicking apple blossom buds. FECK ORF

Bastard theiving bull finches

I properly laughed at chicken on arse incident.

Ariel not for an age. With Julie Walters?

PS have a look at my pics on this NN

Kind of links with Outdoorsy Shite

Whaaaaaat the whaaaaaaat????

rainbow cake

[smug]

That is dead snazzy. v Age of Aquarius.

yeah man

*not sure what toke is but it sounds GREAT

Hijack over

That's bloody amazing, Deep Thought

(PS I think you take a toke of something e.g. hash )

Can You eat it? (Rainbow cake ), How do you get cakes to be cake shape? I made a delicious carrot cake today, sadly looks like Crumbs. Will probably have to eat it with custard

Saw a very handsome male (I think) fox yesterday, in the middle of London. Always seem to see them when I go down there, but have never seen one where I live despite it being very rural. Maybe they're more timid in rural areas or something.

Cock black birds fighting & Mrs Rabbit with Flopsy, Mopsy& Cottontail were the view Rom the loo this morning Then when I was topping up the colts water a skein of Canada geese came over which was lovely, not so lovely for whoever's field they land on. I missed the gang of passarines that failed to show up at hen feeding time.

From the loo

Violet the thread title and your posting location has me picturing a tumbledown hut with door that doesn't close properly...I do not conjure up the picture beyond that