Oh, Come on!
Sent wi' th'ipad
Stop sending over all that typical Northern weather!
Today has been incredibly cloudy and it even rained for nearly a full nine minutes!
Thunderstorms are rumbling around the valleys though!
Cloudy Cortona up on the hill.
No, but seriously a bit of rain wouldn't go amiss as we haven't had any for over 3 months now and there are signs that things are starting to suffer. The trees in the forest above us are turning brown and cracks are appearing in the parched earth.
The local wildlife must be suffering too as the other night I caught two badgers on the lawn eating dropped mulberries and this morning two foxes 🦊, as bold as brass, were trotting down the track towards me. Maybe they were looking for a drink?
All the rivers have dried up and many of the local 'Diga's (Dam's) are empty.
The locals tend to be deer 🦌 , porcupines🐾, Cinghiale 🐗foxes 🦊, badgers🐩?, snakes 🐍, tortoises 🐢, frogs 🐸 and lots of lizards 🦎. The lovely Hoopoes that we're here every day seem to have disappeared but the other birds, like the pied wagtails and the house martins still come for drink from the pool every day.
We don't mind the birds and the dragonflies calling in for a sip but you have to draw the line if and when the wild pigs start dropping in....
So at the edge of the woods, on the high ground, in the remains of an old 'pig hole' I built this...
I can fill it with a long hose and it should keep them going for a while!
High and Dry is today's track, not only is it appropriate but it will also annoy the hell out of a certain individual that absolutely hates Radiohead, even more than I hate Phil Collins AND Kanye East ....so will prepare for the backlash!
This is off the fantastic 'The Bends' album, of which I have, for all my life, been addicted to.....sorry BP!
Sent wi' th'ipad
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