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I followed a trail of feathers
Really, I did - for about 150 yards!

Crone
Apr 20, 20221 min read
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Nature red in tooth and claw
There's a nest in there.

Crone
Apr 19, 20222 min read
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Gaiascope
So, years ago I read this book, Animate Earth, and it got me all interested in Schumacher College. As you know, I'm interested again. So...

Crone
Apr 18, 20221 min read
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Back to the copse
The leaves still coming out on the fallen tree.

Crone
Apr 17, 20222 min read
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Let me see!!
Fat pigeon made his escape as I sought to capture his image.

Crone
Apr 16, 20222 min read
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Waste not, want not
Colourful cooking with organic veg - all I believe grown in the UK.

Crone
Apr 15, 20221 min read
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Whaddaya think, Seeds?
At work today I had good news: I can work from home tomorrow. Saves fuel. Extinction Rebellion are blocking the fuel depots (I should be...

Crone
Apr 14, 20221 min read
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Stories of survival
It seems fitting. Maybe this one is an ancient oak. I am sure the girth at a height of 1.5 metres is 4.5 metres or more. Its canopy is...

Crone
Apr 13, 20221 min read
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Bump... but first...
This is the blackthorn hedge we were laying back in... February?

Crone
Apr 12, 20222 min read
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Ask and it shall be given
I visited the park with an intention: that I would see CD. Again, no sign. I fed the Driveways, the Divas, the Fluffies, the Flyings, the...

Crone
Apr 11, 20221 min read
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Failures with trees
After loving The Treeline, I listened to Diana Beresford-Kroeger's To Speak for the Trees. It was not what I thought, more of an...

Crone
Apr 10, 20222 min read
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Failures with birds
it's not all bad. I am not alone in leaving bird food out at Cottesbrooke. There was some there today when I arrived. The little birds...

Crone
Apr 9, 20222 min read
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The jay is back!
But I have no photographic evidence so this will have to do.

Crone
Apr 8, 20222 min read
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Someone to watch over me
The baby cat sleeps with utter abandon, secure in the presence of Buji and me.

Crone
Apr 7, 20222 min read
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The pages and the petals
New (second-hand) book plus pressed flower.

Crone
Apr 6, 20221 min read
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Three seasons in one day
We sat down to enjoy our lunch.

Crone
Apr 5, 20222 min read
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Here, hares, here!
The two brown blobs are two brown hares.

Crone
Apr 4, 20221 min read
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Nestlers or nobblers?
It's got worse. And a bit better.

Crone
Apr 3, 20223 min read
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Guests or gobblers?
Initially, I was delighted to see the crows overlooking my back garden...

Crone
Apr 2, 20222 min read
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Garden habitat
Now, that's not native... though magnolia is lovely...

Crone
Apr 1, 20221 min read
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