April showers

I was just about to go out today and the skies opened up. It absolutely chucked it down. Typical. There was plenty of time throughout the day but no it had to rain when i wanted to go out. Fortunately it didn't last long. I did however, put my waterproof jacket on just in case. Of course after i had been walking for a little while the sun came out so i boiled.

I decided to go without my ipod today. I don't know why, i just felt like it. To be honest i found it very strange, quiet. Yes i could hear the noisy birds and the nice birds but i could also hear the traffic from the main road. As nice as it is hearing the chirping of the birds i think i'll stick to my ipod from now on. Talking of birds, after hearing a noise horrible enough to make your ears bleed aka a pheasant, i wondered how far away their holler travels?

The hedgerows are full of life now. Lots of pretty little flowers and sticky grass plus the customary nettles. They are so green and lush and at certain points the blossom from the hedge floats off and covers the road like some sort of flowery snow.

In other news, the rape seed is starting to release it's hideous odour, i was harrassed by a bumblebee and there was a sqeaky tree.

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Blimey it's warm

The end of last week and the weekend was a little unexpected and so i neglected my walking duties. Not an excuse but a fact and i'm back on track now.

What a lovely day. It was nice and sunny and rather warm, 18 degrees apparently. This did pose a little problem for me and i expect will do in the near future. Do i have my good arm uncovered and potentially get some colour into my Daz white arm or do i keep it covered so it matches the pasty pale poorly one? I went with uncovered today. I also feel like in this nice sunny weather i should wear shorts but i wouldn't want to blind someone with the reflection of my white legs and cause an accident.

Aw it's that time of year where the little lambs appear and aren't they cute. It is also that time of year when you can see that most off the fields have been planted with rape seed. Oh joy. I may have to confine my walks to a treadmill indoors somewhere until they get rid of it. There is a huge difference in the fields. A few weeks ago they were brown and now they are all full of green.

In other news there was a pheasant cooking on the side of the road, it was like something out of a horror film. It looks like the railway workers are actually doing something. The river looked rather inviting in the heat and i got asked why i was wearing a hat.

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Who can you trust?

I was walking along next to a field full of sheep and i noticed one staring at me with it's beady eyes. This sheep was laid on the ground eating. How hard is a sheeps life that it has to lie down to eat?

There was a pheasant strolling along which i didn't see until i saw a blur out of the corner of my eye. Seriously this pheasant was fast and it went in just the one direction in a straight line. Which begs the question, why when they run out into the road do they walk at a snails pace and can't make up their mind which way to turn? Clearly they are capable of running at pace so bloody do it rather than ended up as a cloud of feathers.

I was just about to walk down a bridlepath when a bloke emerged from the other side of the road and started to walk rather slowly the way i was going to go. Now i thought not a chance and carried on up the road. He was probably minding his own business on a wander as i was but i just didn't trust him. I don't particularly want to end up as another statistic and because of that i am not going to take any chances. It is sad that you can't go for a walk without being suspicious of people. Especially as i think of how i roamed about as a child without a second thought. Is the media to blame for making us more aware of 'disappearances'?

In other news i swallowed what must have been my own body weight in bugs. They were everywhere and i even had a little fan club following me for a while. Also an old WW2 type aircraft flew over, i couldn't tell you what it was but it was going so slow i thought it might fall out of the sky. Finally i came across my second roadkill. It looked like a flattered piece of horse dung but on closer inspection was a toad/frog. It was hard to tell.

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Motivation (lack of)

Not really a good day today. It took a lot to drag my sorry backside out of the door. My legs are still in protest from the last two days. I think i will have a day off tomorrow and see if that helps.

I saw my first badger today unfortunately it was also my first encounter with road kill. It wasn't squashed or anything it just looked like it was asleep on the side of the road. Looked like it was a young one, i hope it didn't suffer.

In other wildlife news i startled two pheasants which in turn scared the life out of me. They were hiding in the reeds and as i stomped passed they both shot up into the air making that awful shrieking sound pheasants make. My heart nearly came out of my chest at the shock as well as a couple of expletives from my mouth.

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