Thursday Activity

Morning all,
Too cold yesterday for being out and about but hopefully a little warmer today.
Last night I used a green pepper in the cooking and kept the seed head from inside. These can be planted in compost now but must be kept somewhere indoors and preferably warm like a sunny windowsill. They can go out mid May after the last chance of a frost. Don't forget to keep all vegetable seeds for planting. I now have a row of spring onion leftovers in a pot also.
My pot of other vegetable scraps is growing daily and left in the garden to attract nocturnal beetles and other insects. Just leave it there for a warm day later in the month.

Seeds from a supermarket green pepper

Thought today, seeing it is a bit on the grey side, a bright colourful painting would be a fun thing to try. What better bird to brighten up the day than a fantastically coloured bee eater. A rare bird to the UK, several overshoot their migration each year and arrive here but they are very common in The Camargue, Southern France where I love to go bird watching. A superb habitat.
Here's a photo of one I got on a previous visit there. Plenty of colour and an easy shape to draw too. Have a go and I'll be back with something different tomorrow.

Bee eater.