ADAM AT HOME UK

Not sure whether I'll do an audio clip for this post - it's so short... Well, not to beat about the bush, Benny is now gambolling about the clouds with his ancesters.  A sad day in some ways, but it's the down-side of owning a pet: the time will come when he, she or it will need euthanising and it's just a process one has to go through. That said, he's been a (mostly) very faithful companion who did, eventually  understand that he was not to bring me little presents and was to eat his snacks OUTside!  So now it's just Merlin and me... It's nice to be able to allow him the whole house (bar my bedroom!) although I am still not allowing him out - that will probably have to wait till around or after Christmas-time.  We shall see.......  In the  mean time, he's very keen to be near me - more than before? that's hard to say, but he really does not like me being the wrong side of a door (in his view) and 'creates' accordingly!  He's been here s...

For the vocalised version of this post, try clicking just   HERE With this wonderful summer we've been having and, more particularly, the sunshine we are getting now (late September) my fig tree has been working overtime. I get five or six figs a day but have to pick them a little before they are fully ripened otherwise Mrs Blackbird gets there first 😠🤯 They ripen well-enough on the table though - and, yes, that's a glass of my favourite not-non-alcoholic tipple in the background... 😉 Needless to say, my ageing resident bird-scarer is more intent on soaking up the heat...  Can't say I really blame him! And today's music is... Napravnik's Concerto Symphonique Op27 for piano and orchestra, along with music by Blumenfeld... wonderful 'unknowns' both of them.