Please don't pick the flowers

[Vir Campestris]

Quiet here isn't it!

Last night about sunset I was driving eastbound past Cambridge on the
A14. There's a section I think near the busway where there are lots of
"wild" flowers growing. No doubt they were seeded as part of the
landscaping provisions, and they were very pretty.

I say "were" because there was a guy with an armful of something with
blue flowers. I could believe he'd pulled the plants up, rather than
just picking off the flowers, because the stalks were a couple of feet long.

If you see anyone selling nice tall blue flowers in the market ask where
he got them.

They won't be there next year of course, as they have no chance to set
seed :(

Andy

[David Williams]

Post by Vir Campestris
Quiet here isn't it!

Yes, mostly, but now it's a Duxford airshow weekend and there's been at
least one Spitfire up (G-PRXI), just now. Also of Friday, their B-17
Sally B (G-BEDF) is declared fit to fly - I noticed when it flew
over at about 1000 feet, on its way to Marshalls.

There's organised flying at Duxford until about 5pm today.

Post by Vir Campestris
Last night about sunset I was driving eastbound past Cambridge on the
A14. There's a section I think near the busway where there are lots of
"wild" flowers growing. No doubt they were seeded as part of the
landscaping provisions, and they were very pretty.

Didn't notice them. That would be somewhere near this week's dead
fox on the eastbound carriageway, I guess?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Post by David Williams

Post by Vir Campestris
Quiet here isn't it!

Yes, mostly, but now it's a Duxford airshow weekend and there's been at
least one Spitfire up (G-PRXI), just now. Also of Friday, their B-17
Sally B (G-BEDF) is declared fit to fly - I noticed when it flew
over at about 1000 feet, on its way to Marshalls.
There's organised flying at Duxford until about 5pm today.

Post by Vir Campestris
Last night about sunset I was driving eastbound past Cambridge on the
A14. There's a section I think near the busway where there are lots of
"wild" flowers growing. No doubt they were seeded as part of the
landscaping provisions, and they were very pretty.

Didn't notice them. That would be somewhere near this week's dead
fox on the eastbound carriageway, I guess?

I trump you with a dead badger, now starting to whiff, 100yards from my
door.

[David Williams]

Post by The Natural Philosopher

Post by David Williams

Post by Vir Campestris
Quiet here isn't it!

Yes, mostly, but now it's a Duxford airshow weekend and there's been at
least one Spitfire up (G-PRXI), just now. Also of Friday, their B-17
Sally B (G-BEDF) is declared fit to fly - I noticed when it flew
over at about 1000 feet, on its way to Marshalls.
There's organised flying at Duxford until about 5pm today.

Post by Vir Campestris
Last night about sunset I was driving eastbound past Cambridge on the
A14. There's a section I think near the busway where there are lots of
"wild" flowers growing. No doubt they were seeded as part of the
landscaping provisions, and they were very pretty.

Didn't notice them. That would be somewhere near this week's dead
fox on the eastbound carriageway, I guess?

I trump you with a dead badger, now starting to whiff, 100yards from
my door.

Summer, isn't it? You need a shovel and a strong bin bag.

Yesterday, a Cambridge-Newmarket round trip produced:

Two dead badgers
Another dead fox (not easily identifiable)
One traffic-monitoring[*] camera van
Two unmarked cars with flashing blue lights

* Probably speed checks, but maybe part of the local seat-belt
campaign. The van and cars were all well separated from each
other.

I became certain of the season at the start of the month when I
found an eight-mile stretch of road given the tar and loose
chippings treatment. Mixed feelings might sum it up!

-

Perhaps spring was the several previous weeks of spot filling of
potholes in and around Cambridge? There were even occasional
places with 20 or 30 metres of continuous new surface with sealed
edges but - confusingly - also places where spot filling missed
out potholes that looked just as serious as those filled.

Incidentally, fans of the A14 J33 roundabout at Milton will have
to wait until October or later for a full surface fix of the
roundabout and the A10 to Butt Lane and the Park and Ride. We are
promised three nights of road closures.

[tony sayer]

Post by David Williams

Post by Vir Campestris
Quiet here isn't it!

Yes, mostly, but now it's a Duxford airshow weekend and there's been at
least one Spitfire up (G-PRXI), just now. Also of Friday, their B-17
Sally B (G-BEDF) is declared fit to fly - I noticed when it flew
over at about 1000 feet, on its way to Marshalls.
There's organised flying at Duxford until about 5pm today.

Post by Vir Campestris
Last night about sunset I was driving eastbound past Cambridge on the
A14. There's a section I think near the busway where there are lots of
"wild" flowers growing. No doubt they were seeded as part of the
landscaping provisions, and they were very pretty.

Didn't notice them. That would be somewhere near this week's dead
fox on the eastbound carriageway, I guess?

Yes Sally B flew low right over my manor the other day on its way back
from Marshals made the house shake and then some!..

Cats dint come out of hiding for some while!