It is time..

for a picture!

So, what do you feel when you see this squirrel?

Do you feel 'Ahhh, cute' or 'Yuk, vermin!'

Not too long ago we were invited for a 'getting to know eachother' with our neighbours which was very nice, since we didn't have to drive home and just staggered into our beds, the red wine was lovely :-)

Anyway... I think they are so cute, they always come to our garden and have a look if we have put anything out for them and it feels so gezellig! (unexplainable Dutch word which sort of means cosy but then better in a way that you wiggle your body and make hmmmm noises).

Johns mum however absolutely hates them, they steal the apples of her trees you see.. so when she has been looking forward to pick and eat her home grown produce the little rascal steals it and as she says probably hides it 'for winter' and doesn't even eat it. They are apparently famous for stashing things and then forgetting about it so that all the nuts and fruit rots.

Oh well.. even though John and I didn't particularly like the fact that it broke 3 of our birdfeeders coz it wanted the nuts in them, we did like the cuteness of them.

So, on that particular neighbour event one of our neighbours said squirrels around here were considered vermin, rats with tails and that they scare away little birds and that they would be culled (they mean killed though :-)). Also he said 'they eat your bulbs'...

What!!!

Now listen... I am Dutch, right. There is nothing more important being a Dutch person in a foreign country than to have one's bulbs in one's garden! Over the years mine have multiplied and we now have a nice selection of tulips in different colours and some beautiful nice smelling hyacinths.

Yesterday, on the first day that it really felt like spring was coming, I checked the little green sprigs of the tentatively peeking bulbs and SHOCK HORROR, something ate the flowery bit of my HYACINTH! They even started on the leaves of my favorite HUGE red tulip! So that's it!

Wemyss Bay squirrels... ---------> B E W A R E <----------- Don't mess with The Teeg!