Archive for September 9th, 2007
“The line is drawn Here…No Further!”
As any Star Trek fan knows, this is what Picard stated with regards to the Borg assmilating Earth.
Well folks, I have now drawn this line with the squirrels at the back of my flat. I have sacrificed too many plants over the last 2 years now and it is pissing me off considerably. This is what I did to my plants. Netting them seems to be the only way to deal with the squirrels and hopefully it will work. I know the solution isn’t pretty at the moment, but hopefully I’ll find a better way of keeping the netting on at some point. Every ‘more friendly’ method I have tried hasn’t worked and after digging up my lovely Fuchsia too many times (which I got last year at a RHS flower show Cardiff with Graham’s mum) this is it. The squirrels are not digging up the roots of my plants any more.
My Fuschia has flowered quite well this year and after the squirrels destroyed my daffodils (which I’d had the previous year too) I got determined that the Fuchsia would not go the same way. I hate squirrels.
Well, I’ve drawn the line, and if they wanna step up and challenge me, then they may end up with more of a challenge then they want.
Titchfield Abbey
Since Graham got his new car (See here for more info) we’ve been checking out some of the local Hampshire attractions - which of course you can only really see a lot of them by car, which I think really sucks. Anyway, ‘nuf said about that for now. We went to Titchfield Abbey on saturday, one of the freebie English-Heritage sites. It’s very lovely and has over time had various renovations done to it - some including red bricks(!!!) and 2 very silly looking chimneys on the top, again in red brick. There were also some beautiful crosses in the stone walls and some latin tiles. We had a picnic while we were there too, it was very quiet - only 3 other cars were there while we were, and 2 left before we did.
I love places like this - it’s interesting to see and try to imagine what life was like for people hundreds of years ago - and really makes me appreciate my (too expensive in my opinion) electric heating, and the new car 
We did end up almost missing the turn off for the Abbey though. They Abbey walls aren’t hard to miss, but the entrance looks like one those yellow/white gravel paths, not a road entrance, and if it wasn’t for the car we managed to get a glimpse of inside then Graham said he wouldn’t have gone in with the car!!