Another litter pick

We did a litter pick on Saturday with volunteers from Aberdeen Cycle Forum and collected a huge amount of rubbish along the banks of the River Dee. Some of us were assaulted by stinging nettle and bramble so next year we might do it in winter or early spring before the vegetation returns. It was a very successful cleanup but what is wrong with our culture that people leave their rubbish in the first place and how do we change it? I don’t know the answer.

The foxes are doing well and we’re still going every second night to put food out. Unfortunately the gulls have cottoned on and it’s starting to look a bit like a scene from The Birds now. We appear and there’s one gull. I look away then turn back and see three, then 5 and very soon there’s a dozen of them.

Meanwhile at home we’ve had an infestation of fruit flies. We were all blaming Elizabeth for this as she breeds them for her ants but then I discovered a bag of partly decomposed potatoes hiding at the back of a cupboard. This seems to have been the source and things are improving since we removed it. Bring on winter! We won’t have to worry about fruit flies in a month or two when the weather starts to cool.