After a weekend spent in the garden I've almost caught up with the essential weeding but the closer I got to finishing the flower beds the more excuses I found not to finish off. Says something about my personality - a degree in procrastination.

On Monday I went on a U3A trip to Humberside Airport - it has to be the quietest international airport on the planet. We had a guided tour of the control tower and the radar room. It's interesting that NATS (National Air Traffic Service) operates as a commercial company and sells it's radar data to privately owned regional airports. Our air safety has been sold off to the highest bidder!

We had a demonstration by the airport fire service and this was followed by a tour of the Coastguard station which is also run by Bristow, a commercial company. The pilot was fascinating and had an obvious love of the helicopter.

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<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/owl-boxjul17-1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4439" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/owl-boxjul17-1-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a>And whilst I'm busy watching people play with fire Nick is busy building Tawny Owl boxes. I helped him (held the ladder) to put this one up. There are Tawny owls in the area because we have seen them on a number of occasions in the trees along the drive so fingers crossed we'll have an owl nesting in the next few years - fingers crossed.