The Old Fox Blog Welcome

Welcome to my brand new blog. Apologies if for the first few days,or possibly weeks,content is a little shaky but I am trying to learn how to do this and I am sure that there is a lot to learn. I am already struggling to upload a photograph from my IPad! Maybe I will have more joy from the computer,I will try that later. I have wanted to start blogging for a while now as I think that the place that we live in is very unusual and interesting and there always seems to be something going on,particularly in relation to the local wildlife. The blog is particularly for the rest of the Mee family but I am sure if anyone else finds it of interest they will follow it too. If I get ten followers then I will be happy with that to be honest.
The Old Fox With His Teeth Drawn is an old Thatch Cottage in the middle of a wood called Bricket Wood. Father refers to it as the enchanted forest because as you drive down the lane it does look like the sort of wood that you see in the movies and on the television but then that is probably because it is regularly used in filming for all kinds of TV,film and magazine shoots! Quite often you drive down the lane to find the road blocked by some enormous truck or other. Most recently I drove down the lane at dusk and saw an enormous bright white light shining in the woods. It was so huge that it ought to have been the sun only I knew that the sun was already disappearing behind the trees! What could it be I hear you ask! ET? No! Only the biggest flood light that you have ever seen in your entire life! Now I like to keep myself to myself and not interfere in the goings on in and around the wood so I simply drove past and carried on home. My wife however,who does like to know all of the goings on in the wood, knew exactly what was going on.Apparently Harrods were doing a shoot for their Christmas web page. Harrods I tell you!
Anyway here ends the first posting. Actually before I go I should say that the most recent activity is on the duck pond. The duck pond used to be the actual Bricket Wood village pond in years gone by but at some point it became part of this property and so now we look after it,including getting in it last year to shovel a skip full of rotted leafy mulch out of the bottom! So, there are lots of comings and goings around the pond with moorhens,ducks and even grass snakes at times. The most recent event is that on boxing day one of the ducks hatched ten chicks! Yes I said ten chicks and yes I said Boxing Day. It just shows you what a state of confusion can arise in the wild world when the weather is not doing what it ought to be.
Mother and babies are all doing fine after two days. I will post pictures and possibly a video when I have worked out how to do it or,more likely,when someone else more intelligent has shown me how to do it! Thanks for reading.