Monday’s are always busy as I do the finance updates on the best ISAs, Savings & Credit cards on www.saverscene.co.uk (now closed as I move into gardening as a profession) and everything in the Individual Savings Accounts have pretty much changed as we come to the end of the financial year. But today I had a appointment for my carpal tunnel, then I got home to find that my mum just over from Australia had a freezing cold shower, she thought she’d done something wrong but it seems that the new boiler installed a week and a bit ago had stopped working… My Dad an electrician decided to have a look and found one of our fuses (probably from the 1950s) had burnt out, but that wasn’t affecting the boiler.
Deciding to try and find the old style gear to fix it; we wandered into a industrial estate near The Gyle Edinburgh and saw my first Rook of the year! We managed to find a few parts and then bodge some of the older ones together, he looked at the state of the rest of the fuse box and said it’d last another 50 years compared to the new ones in the electronic stores which he gave maybe 10. So it’s almost all working and the boiler’s back up and going, after all this we get a letter saying the plumbers want an extra £720 for the work took longer than they estimated, when I got the estimate I was told 5 days, it took 5 days… So hmmm not happy! Anyway I got a good look at a rook digging around in the ground, fantastic looking birds, I guess most people probably don’t feel that way about Rooks, but I like them.
Sorry to go on, just like to keep people up to date on how much time I have to watch birds, today was very little but I still got a decent list:
- Blackbird x 1
- Blue Tit x 1
- Bullfinch x 2, 1xm, 1xf
- Carrion crow x 1
- Coal Tit x 1
- Dunnock x 3
- Magpie x 1
- Rook x 1 – not in my garden, between The Gyle Edinburgh and Corstorphine.
- Starlings x 11
- Woodpigeon x 2
