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Keith

Walsall - UK

Interests: Wales (the country) web design, peace and quiet to hustle and bustle and one day, curry, good food, beer, new york city (who's quirkiness and can do attitude thrills me. keen curry maker with 25+ years experience. favourite galactic bad guys: the daleks !

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Birthday money, bog cleaner and bird food

My sister gave me some birthday money. Did I go out and frot it up with a prossie ? No. Did I buy a new Dalek ? No. I went down to Wilko and bought mealworms and blue tit mix.... Continue reading

Posted Feb 21, 2013 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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Early birthday present

These are from my sister's "private stock" and she's got to have the bowl back... Yesterday, was the first day in two complete weeks I have felt anything like human. I managed a trip in to town and then later... Continue reading

Posted Feb 20, 2013 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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So, I had a Mistle Thrush...

Actually, I had two of them nosing around mid-week, but I didn't know what they were. This morning, one alighted on the balcony rail a large bird, dark chocolate brown, flicked its tail like blackbirds do. Beautiful creature and less... Continue reading

Posted Feb 15, 2013 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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arm full of loopy and click, click click

Pretty rough session of lithotripsy yesterday. Firstly, it took about forty minutes for them to find the stone. The session began and immediately, despite the morphine based painkiller they put in my arm, I was in some pain. As the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 14, 2013 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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So much entertainment and hilarity

Darlo gave me a bird feeder with fat balls in for Christmas. I hung it out on the balcony and it took about three weeks before I even saw a bird. Since then, I've been given a couple of other... Continue reading

Posted Feb 13, 2013 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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A long and unpleasant week

Writing today after a long and unpleasant week of kidney pain. At first I didn't even know that it was my kidney stone, as I've had it in one form or another for three or more years and never had... Continue reading

Posted Feb 12, 2013 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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She's got to feed the welder

Keeping piglet fed is a full time job for Pat. I've got a picture of the meal she put before him and the empty plate, but if you saw the size of the mound of food, you'd not believe it,... Continue reading

Posted Jan 24, 2013 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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We had snow from Friday last week and as well as making it difficult to get around for everyone, it also gave opportunities for nice pictures. The arboretum especially had been transformed into our very own Narnia. A collection of... Continue reading

Posted Jan 24, 2013 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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The Doofus Factor

Reading of my conversion of the balcony to the sixth floor diner, free all you can eat buffet if you're a little birdie, one of OBC's shooting companions Trevor, has sent via OBC a couple more feeders and some stuff... Continue reading

Posted Jan 24, 2013 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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The sixth floor diner is open

This diner's strictly for the birds and are they enjoying themselves. Used the panorama feature on the new Fuji for the first time and was I impressed with the result. You take the first picture and a small yellow cross... Continue reading

Posted Jan 19, 2013 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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Another little visitor

Starting to need air traffic control out on my balcony. Most of the visitors are Starlings which congregate in the big tree opposite, but occasionally these little guys get a look in. Some sort of tit or finch. Ducks fleeced... Continue reading

Posted Jan 17, 2013 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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Not as routine as I hoped

I was a bit twitched after my visit to hospital yesterday. It was to discuss the results of my last CT scan and I hoped that not only would my right kidney be cancer free (as it was), but the... Continue reading

Posted Jan 16, 2013 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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Customer service, it's a myth

I despair ! Over the past couple of weeks, I have wasted time and money on phone calls trying to sort out silly little problems and getting little to no help from these so called highly trained professional customer care... Continue reading

Posted Jan 14, 2013 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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Such a happy little welder

He's off out tonight in his Where's Wally socks, but this morning he came and collected me and off we went to sort out his new laptop. Pat called me the other day and said he was a bit down,... Continue reading

Posted Dec 31, 2012 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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Had a woofy visitor

No, not the welder... Roger the English Bull Terrier and a very nice doggie he is too. We had a very nice time with wine, pork pie, pork sandwiches and bacon flavour Pom bears. Yes, the elf costume had an... Continue reading

Posted Dec 23, 2012 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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The concert in the park

Cobbled this together this afternoon from the clips I shot at the Christmas concert yesterday. Continue reading

Posted Dec 16, 2012 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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Welder's got some new toys

Had a desperate text from Pat this morning "He's driving me mad", meaning the Welder. I had to yield to defeat over his laptop which I spent hours working on only to have it constantly blue screen afterwards. He's been... Continue reading

Posted Dec 16, 2012 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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Went up to see Bob the Butcher yesterday as usual. He'd got pheasants hanging in the window which was unusual, as you have to be licenced to deal in game. "They ay for sale, just for show" he said. Then... Continue reading

Posted Dec 16, 2012 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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A busy but pleasant week

Well, apart from Monday when I had really bad shits from the early hours onwards... Thursday I'd got Darlo coming round for our Christmas brekky. I'd been decorating the place up a bit at a time, but making rather slow... Continue reading

Posted Dec 14, 2012 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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Appeal for the ducks

This is an urgent appeal for anyone who loves duck... Sorry, can we do that again ? I think this script should read ducks plural, otherwise overtones of sauce l'orange or cherries creep in. When I went for my walk... Continue reading

Posted Dec 11, 2012 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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It's that time of year again...

Near impossible to drag a smile out of Bob the Butcher at that time in the morning. Begrudgingly he put his Santa hat on and posed with my Christmas beef which will now hang til I collect it in a... Continue reading

Posted Dec 8, 2012 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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Out in the cold again this morning

This morning I took the Fuji with me and the tripod (which is cumbersome and keeps falling out of the bag). Also nine slices of Warburtons which were truly enjoyed mostly by the geese in the arboretum as the ducks... Continue reading

Posted Dec 2, 2012 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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Morning Vicar...

Frosty Sunday morning. Altered my route for a bit of variety, down through the town, up the hill towards Asda where I was faced with a decision. Do I try to scale the north face of Church Hill (which faces... Continue reading

Posted Nov 18, 2012 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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A bricht moolicht, nicht...

I've snapped one or two decent photos this year and I promise you, not one was set up in advance. I saw something I thought would work and took the shot. The sun bursting through the trees, the sheep on... Continue reading

Posted Nov 17, 2012 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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Welder's going to spit the dummy

Got the call from OBC "Don't suppose you fancy some Diwali curry in our canteen do ya" ? So, that's where I ended up pigging it up on chicken curry, lamb curry, vegetable curry, chicken pakora, vegetable samosas and rice.... Continue reading

Posted Nov 16, 2012 at The Sturdy Soapbox

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