This little fellow spent most of the day napping in the tree outside our place:

He looked so comfy and cozy!

He’s gone now, though.

This concludes today’s random post.

I’ve been shutting the windows as soon as it gets dark outside for the last week or so because it seems to be crane fly season, and we’ve had at least half a dozen of them venture into the house so far.

I know they only come inside to get at the lights, but they still kinda creep me out. They like to fly into our round rice paper lampshades and bounce around in there, which makes lots of noise. Sometimes they even make shadow puppets of monsters and stuff to try to scare me.

When they’re done with that, most of them tend to fly drunkenly TOWARDS MY HEAD. Harmless or not, that’s just not cool.

The cats LOVE ‘em, though. They’re easy to catch, and apparently taste quite nice, as well.

Here’s one Kismet caught & enjoyed this evening. Notice the rude gestures he’s making at me while I try to snap a photo?

Maybe I’ll start referring to them as Lollygaggers instead. That name makes ‘em sound less likely to want to glom onto your face and poke out your eyes just for the hell of it!

Went down to Poole today, and then over to Swanage where we were lucky enough to happen upon the Swanage Folk Festival.

Morris Dancers from various areas had taken over the town and were performing in the streets! It’s not all docile hanky-waving, either — some of the sides were quite rowdy, with drums and shouts and hitting-sticks, like the group in this video!

We drove through The New Forest on the way home. (More info here. There were wild ponies everywhere!!

I’d never seen a Magpie before my move to Alberta, as they only seem to be found out west. I kinda missed ‘em when I moved back to the eastern side of Canada!

Luckily for me, there are Magpies aplenty in the UK! They don’t wake me up in the morning as often as the Canadian ones did, but they are just as entertaining to watch! Also, I can completely relate to their love of shiny things.

Here’s one I spotted in the tree outside our place: