New visitors....

  The proud mother as seen feeding her offspring yesterday.  Really cute!!

We've had two very different types of visitors over the past few weeks......

Our little humming bird who has been with us since we moved into the house started nesting in the back yard.  We watched her for weeks building her little nest, reinforcing it with spiders web - that stuff is really sticky over here (everything is better in America !). The nest is tiny but obviously very strong as it survived some nasty storms we've had here over the last few weeks, each one making more breaking news than the previous one.


Our next visitors weren't so welcome.  We first noticed sawdust on the ground (despite my endless vacuum cleaning) and then holes in on one of our chairs.  Sure enough, on closer inspection we could see that we had some uninvited critters.  I rang the housing agency.  They sounded quite concerned when I mentioned it could be termites or woodworm.....  It still took them 2-3 days to remove the chair....  The guy that exchanged the chair was obviously well traveled.  All I could get out of him was "oh - never saw that before".  2-3 days people ! - haven't you ever seen a house destroyed by termites??????  It really makes you wonder when the house is totally made of WOOD!!

It could have been us !