The world is a scary place right now, every day sees what feels like a new low from the angry toddler in the White House. Meanwhile the guy in the Kremlin continues meddling in world affairs and killing Ukranians for no tangible result, pleased no doubt that the spotlight is elsewhere, and supplies of anti-drone hardware are heading elsewhere. There are probably other bad things happening in other places but the news feeds don't deem them worthy of mainstream dissemination. I really need to get hold of a new pan-opinion source of current affairs that is much broader than the diet I am currently fed. My phone trys to give me a mix of sources, but it only takes one Telegraph article that is at best a thinly disguised opinion piece from a right wing sycophant, or a GB News piece brimming with outrage about giving needy people handouts before I just switch off, and that's before I've even got to the Daily Mail. The Guardian and the Independent are less inherently unkind, but they too are eminently predictable. What is happening in Africa? South America? I suppose my entire day could be spent devouring content, I should be careful what I wish for.
News of a war that may not have made it to you is that the Skylark fence on Wanstead Flats has been reinstalled for the breeding season and that vandalisim is full swing. Before the Easter weekend somebody stole almost all of the metal fixings from virtually the entire circumference and a good portion of the actual rope for good measure. The CoL team replaced and repaired, but at the weekend various sections got cut anew. Yesterday it happened yet again, was repaired quickly, but this morning the best part of the top section is in ruins once more with a load of the rope missing again. I just don't understand the mentality, it is completely baffling. It makes me very cross. So do many things at the moment. Maybe I am in fact the ideal Daily Telegraph reader?
My last post on here took so long to actually complete that by the time I eventually hit publish a whole load of other things had happened. I thought about carrying on, but it had shades of a never-ending stream of consciousness so I quit while I was able to. But I can offer a condensed version here, which is that this past weekend I barely left the house and did a lot more gardening and a lot more birding. The gardening was excellent, albeit that it makes about as good blogging as international travel. The birding was largely rubbish until Monday, with Saturday in particular being utterly dire for early April, but a couple days later something changed. I can't honestly say that the floodgates have openedm but there have been Swallows, a Yellow Wagtail, Willow Warblers, an uptick in Red Kites, and in the past couple of days the first Whitethroats have arrived on territory. Bob has had a Sedge Warbler, Marco a Tree Pipit, and the signs are generally all positive. Which therefore makes me feel quite positive despite the state of the world. I am easily pleased perhaps - all I need is a tidy greenhouse, a bit of sunshine, a smattering of migrants, and a good supply of Rosé.
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