What are you watching?

Hi Lucy

I love Springwatch, it was from Northern Ireland on Tuesday night I think, specifically from an ancient graveyard that I used to pass on the bus in the centre of Belfast. It's a locked ancient graveyard and everything is overgrown and the camera picked up a vixen and 2 young cubs playing.

There is an active badger sett 2 fields behind me and you can see the new entrances being occasionally dug. I can tell you that some stones that they excavate are nearly the size of an adult badger. One morning about 10am I was looking out the front window and a badger was running down the small country road in front of our house. Funny thing is, it was on the correct side of road for travel lol!

Tvman x

Fab - you are lucky living so rurally . A badger with road sense too ! 

We are right on the edge of surburbia and countryside and have foxes in the garden every year . They seem to get braver as the weeks go by . I like watching the cubs playing on the lawn with mummy and daddy keeping an eye on them. My hubby isn’t a fan of the fox poo in the grass though when he comes to mow ! 

That's great Chelle.

I do family history too but the furthest I managed to go back was the 18th century.

Most of my ancestors were Irish and that can be a nightmare trying to find them in Ireland.

Funnily enough I have never been to Ireland. I always meant to go especially to some of the places where my ancestors lived.

It is my Scottish line that I can trace furthest back. The Scottish records are very good until you hit a wall where there are people in the same place with the same name. One wrong turn and you go down the wrong path to the wrong family.

I was watching a programme about The Tower of London the other night.

It was about Catherine Howard. I knew all about her as I had read the Shardlake books.

I like programmes about History and Geography.

Helen