Three little woodpeckers. Fighting in a tree. That’s what I encountered on my daily walk today. Turn up the sound and you can hear them, along with a distant pheasant.
#AWindowOnScotland is a nice little tag on Twitter at the moment. Lots of lovely views from Scottish windows. Mine:
Talking of Twitter, and good things, I’m collaborating in a great initiative to help small businesses, especially ones that have fallen through the gaps of governmental help. I’ll be retweeting lots of wonderful products and services between 9-10pm GMT tomorrow, Friday 17th April on the tag #CelebsForSmallBiz (yes, that is Mrs Fitz from Outlander!)
The Evening Express have published a wee article on the next book, Fireflies and Chocolate here.
Meanwhile, The Mermaid and the Bear sits among the primroses, flowers that I ate while researching medieval foods for it! See research article.
Now free on Kindle Unlimited. Also available in paperback. Book info page here.
Stay safe and well. Look after yourselves. For me, this involves sitting in the sun, eating chocolate and listening to those woodpeckers!
Eating flowers as part of your historical research! Wow! You really get into your work, don’t you?! I appreciate such dedication to accuracy. I’m sure it makes your writing much more believable. Just be careful what you eat. 🙂
I will 😀
Thanks for spreading good cheer!
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Love the view out your window!
I do too 🙂
The tag #CelebsForSmallBiz is a really good initiative. Small businesses need support like this one.
They really do.
I ordered your book, received it and now I’m reading it. Loving it so far!
Great to hear 😀
I love the view from your window. Lucky you. Eating flowers sounds like fun research. Congrats on the book.
Thank you 🙂
I loved your book, hope the review generated some sales. I thought the beginning of your blog : Three little woodpeckers fighting in a tree – was the start of a children’s song!
Thank you Noelle! It did feel like starting to write a nursery rhyme 🙂
Thanks for that video! I caught the pheasant. And this e little woodpeckers, fighting over insect hinting ground. Your window view is lovely.
The woodpeckers may have been a love triangle. It is mating season for them 🙂
Love your view! Hope you stay safe and well, too.
Thank you 🙂
Nice post! It sounded like a blackbird alarm call to me, though!
That is the sound the woodpeckers make when angry, and they often seem to be enraged at this time of year 🙂
Interesting! Very similar call.
tac tac tac….. tac tac tac… By now it’s a few weeks ago since I heard woodpeckers pecking wood in a wood during one of my own walks. I haven’t heard them again.
That’s a great sound to hear too 🙂
Beautiful view from your window, Ailish. xX
I do love tree-ish views!
I love hearing that you also eat primrose flowers and have you tried the leaves in your omelet? Congrats for The Mermaid and the Bear!
I didn’t try the leaves at all! Interesting thought 🙂
The video is an nice touch, given how we’re all stuck inside so much right now!
A picture would not have caught them at all.
Great ideas! Also I love your window photo.
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Lovely window view!
I do love those tree-ish views 🙂
So many wonderful things in this post! I love your window photo.
Glad you like 🙂
So excited to hear you’re participating in support for small businesses! Also, thanks for sharing the window image and the video. That little bit of woodland magic brightened my day!
The woods are magical.
Wow, I can’t get over how your trees look just like mine. From my heart to yours, Thanks for helping small businesses.
Wonderful trees 🙂
Thanks for sharing this.Love woodpeckers…
Me too 🙂
When I lived in Wales there was a stream running down the side of the garden with a wooded bank beyond and I loved the sound of the woodpeckers, even more so when they visited the garden too. Such beautiful birds!
And at this time of year the bank would be filling with wild primroses too, and there was great joy in spotting where new clumps were developing each spring.
Thank you for the sweet memories. 🙂
Your old garden sounds idyllic!
Loved thsi and will get the book for my next reading. Looking forward.
I hope you enjoy it 🙂
very likely post good watch ,regards