Bit of a dead rubber day tomorrow. Was looking at imps coverage in my facebook stream including the odds on various scores for the last game of the season away at port vale. Tis a little surprising that lincoln are only 6 to 1 to win one nil as opposed to lower odds considering they are runaway winners of the league title and port vale are relegated. Maybe there isn’t enough money being bet on the game. Maybe they think the team has been out on the lash celebrating since last weekend and will be on reduced capacity.
Rewind. Just looked it up to check and Lincoln are actually odds on faves to win. However having gone to the effort of typing that first paragraph on my phone I’m going to leave it there as it would otherwise have been a complete waste of effort 🙂
I have an event free calendar today, yay. Do have a few bits and bobs to get on with. Then might meet a couple of the lads in the Bail for a coffee. Got to stay off the pop as we are off to see David Olusoga in the cathedral ce soir. THG doesn’t want me to nod off in the middle of his talk. Honestly as if I would do that.
Actually I do have form when it comes to nodding off. We went to see a history lecture at the Collection a few years back. It was so boring that two or three of us did nod off. There had been lunch beforehand and that might have involved a glass of wine.
Just finished a pleasant enough breakfast of a bacon sandwich and half a grapefruit. The bacon, Waitrose “extra thick” was in my mind really just about the minimum acceptable thickness for such a delicacy. The stuff you get in the supermarkets these days is often so thin you have to handle it very carefully to avoid it coming apart. Pathetic really. Pathetic that people will buy it even.You don’t actually get much choice in many emporia. It is often the case of just how thin do you want it?
Fox came at 19:38 last evening whilst I was just finishing golf and then the hedgehog variously from nine oh five pee em onwards. What was interesting is that the fox was caught again on camera at 04:55 (Raised Beds) and 05:00 (Lake). The earlier video is in darkness but only five minutes later in full daylight at the lake. This is either down to the differences in cameras or during the first vid it was very much in nighttime mode and in the second there was enough daylight to switch it over to daytime mode. Whatever the answer it tells us that dawn was at 5am or just before on this day, 1st May 2026 CE.
Pinch and a punch…
Magpies creating a racket in the holm oak behind the shed. Their call is very abrasive. Merlin picked up a siskin this morning. This is a new one and tbh I was somewhat suspicious that the app had made a mistake. However I googled it and indeed siskins are to be found in Lincoln so I’m inclined to add it to the flock of recorded avian species.
There is also big news from the lake. The one surviving aquatic plant we bought from the Wirral Aquatic Centre (or similar) for the then upside down dustbin lid pond is emerging from the deep. The lid lake was long since discarded in favour of the current magnificent watery expanse. The four plants procured cheaply in the end of season sale turned out to need much deeper water than the dustbin lid could provide and did not thrive. The one survivor was put in place in the deep water of the new lake and having died back has over wintered well and would appear to be thriving. The label is still in place and after wiping away the accumulated dirt has revealed itself to be a Butomus. The RHS has photos and I am excited that this will fit well into the natural environment. All the photos I can find require attribution or are copyrighted so I’ll wait until this one flowers to show you.
Lots happening. Off now to install the irrigation system in the greenhouse. Ciao amigos.