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Nostalgie de la boue
Apr. 18th, 2024 10:31 amIt finally feels like it might be April. The sky icy blue with wisps of fairweather cloud, striped across with contrails. In sheltered places, warmth in the sun. The wrens singing their hearts out. Queen bumblebees on curved trajectories among the gorse flowers.
On my walk through the forest, met a runner out with two dogs, a large labradoodle and a medium cockerdoodle. The labradoodle came over to say hello, big and wet and muddy and splendidly odiferous from a visit to the bog pools. The owner was horrified, but I was delighted.
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On my walk through the forest, met a runner out with two dogs, a large labradoodle and a medium cockerdoodle. The labradoodle came over to say hello, big and wet and muddy and splendidly odiferous from a visit to the bog pools. The owner was horrified, but I was delighted.
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Feb. 11th, 2024 11:27 amAnother quiet morning. No wind. The sun glimpsed only as a white disc in the cloud. It's ridiculously mild for February. The forest still very soggy. All walks involve picking a path around the puddles. The Coal-tits are singing full-on, like its spring. And the Stonechats and Dartford Warblers, who have been in hiding all winter, are seeking out perches on the tops of gorse bushes.
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The car is the star
Jan. 13th, 2024 11:44 amMy car is back. I celebrated by going to the supermarket this morning. *sighs* Well, it's not like there's any daylight out there for photography, anyway... So. Very. Grey.
Very impressed with the garage I used yesterday. (Not my usual family garage, who were too busy to fit my car in for a service this month). They sent me a little 5-minute video of my car, up on the vehicle lift, filming all the parts they had inspected and that were fine, and all the parts they had inspected and that needed attention: perished suspension brushes, one tyre with the tread only just legal.
What a brilliant idea.
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Very impressed with the garage I used yesterday. (Not my usual family garage, who were too busy to fit my car in for a service this month). They sent me a little 5-minute video of my car, up on the vehicle lift, filming all the parts they had inspected and that were fine, and all the parts they had inspected and that needed attention: perished suspension brushes, one tyre with the tread only just legal.
What a brilliant idea.
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The Hebe has visitors
Aug. 5th, 2023 10:36 am
A few years ago, a friend gave me a tiny Hebe plant, and I had nowhere sunny to plant it, so I stuck in a small pot in front of the house, just for the time being. It's now a very big Hebe plant, still growing in a very small pot. But somehow it thrives. And the bees and the hoverflies love it.
Hornet Mimic hoverfly (Volucella zonaria). Very big, and in flight, remarkably hornet-like. I'm seeing lots of them this year.
Photos taken last week. Today it's rain and gales again. Strong enough winds for the Met Office to reach for their book of names: Storm Antoni. I haven't been out yet, just stood at the kitchen window a while watching the rain blowing by in curtains.
( There is no shortcut to the middle of nowhere )
