Friday 30 December 2011

WildCam in the trees, rain in the sky...

...today was a good day. I just spent a good 15 - 20 minutes in the hedge, half way up a tree in the rain. So I'm in a good mood (not sarcastically, genuinely). I was fixing WildCam to his new perch facing into the lane where deer often walk through, whilst trying not to be spotted by any neighbours, mostly because i feared having to attempt socialisation but also because I was in a hedge, looking shifty, wearing a hoody...here, that's usually three boxes checked for criminal activity. A town person has come to steal our lawn mower! Humphrey call the police! I'll fetch the pitchfork, and send the children to cower in fear in the attic! Well it's not quite that bad but you get my meaning.

And note how I said pitchfork and not gun. Very few people have a gun here, even in the countryside. Not like the US were toddlers can wonder round with Ak47s (so the legend goes), which is why our gun crime rate is so much lower, pitchfork crime rate however...

Quote of the day:

(Talking about leaving bait for WildCam)

Labyrinth: Later when it gets a bit darker I'll go and throw some raisins....
The man: ...at people

I don't know why that was so bloody funny, but it just was. We also had a visit from the mans brother today (who insistently, is one of only 5 people I do talk to relatively comfortably), who's really in it up to his neck at the moment, but that's a story for another time.

Thursday 29 December 2011

Left in the dark...


I woke up today at 3 something in the afternoon to the man coming in to say he was going into town and he wouldn’t be long, it was already dark, I wasn’t feeling too good, he was in a rush to get to the bank before it closed and so he left.
I haven’t been out anywhere in a while. When I do venture outside the home environment it is ALWAYS with the man, the man understands I don’t like people; he gets the whole phobia deal. I don’t trust anyone else to take me anywhere. I have in the past and I’ve either been left alone somewhere, or started to have a panic attack or just been thrown headfirst into awkward and horrible social situations. I can trust no-one. No-one but the man.
I actually felt like crying a bit when his car went down the driveway. Don’t get me wrong, I love being in the house by myself usually, but when he goes out without me it’s very much a lost opportunity to get out the house and go somewhere, for my own sanity if nothing else.
So I just sat up in bed, in the dark, in the eerily silent house and felt quite gutted. Sad really isn’t it?

Wednesday 28 December 2011

Testing testing...

For Christmas, courtesy of the man, I got a long awaited infrared wildlife camera. Drunk with excitement, by boxing day I was scaling the garden desperately searching for somewhere that would be both convenient for me to access and well placed to get some good wildlife shots. To be honest with you I was half expecting to get nothing but a few birds and our cats nightly adventures for some weeks to come but low and behold a Christmas miracle.

Day 2 of WildCams life, he was sitting quite contently strapped to a tree down by our compost heap, about an acre away from the house (yeah, I’m a English country mouse, i use acres, mostly because i have no idea what it is in meters...somewhere between 70 and 100 I would think) and who should come walking by....Foxy Woxy!

Behold!



Much later the same day, WildCam caught a strange puddy cat wondering through our puddy cats territory...

Though unfortunately all WildCam got today was a very greedy magpie, and the wind blowing through the trees. Oh well. It's all hit and miss as the man says. All terribly exciting for someone who hasn't been out the house in 13 days though...

Tuesday 27 December 2011

So it begins...

Given the comings of a new year, I’ve decided to take a leap into the unknown and start something new, (how original of me).  And of all things, blogging is the one thing I’m desperate to really have a go at. I read blogs, I like blogs and so I want to write a blog.
I don’t know if I will keep this up, whether it will fail spectacularly or even if I have anything in the slightest bit of interest to share with anyone else out there, but even so, for future reference, if by some magical fluke in I get a reader, hello...
I am a young adult, I have no friends, I have no life, I do not leave the house very often, I do not answer the door, I do not use phones. I live in my bedroom.
No I am not autistic, I am perfectly coherent, I’m perfectly pleasant, I go on holidays, I’m perfectly healthy. But I live my day to day life completely shut away and have done so for some years.
I’m not depressed, I’m not a geek, I love the outdoors, and I can be the most social person in a room full of people.
My personality is confusing and contradictory, and so I hoped that someone would find my unique lifestyle interesting and insightful.
And so my blog begins...