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Category Archives: wildlife
Blue tit saga 2012
Once again the nest box just outside the bedroom window was occupied by a pair of blue tits. By mid-May both parents were busy feeding the hidden brood. Last week we were shocked to realise that there was only one … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton, Round Hill, wildlife
Tagged Blue tits, new brood, taking to the air
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Llandeilo Working Holiday – 5th to 12th may 2012
Left Brighton just before 8am and had been met at Llandeilo station, taken to Newton House and had claimed a bed in the dormitory within the medieval buildings bordering a courtyard adjacent to the grand house before 3pm. During the … Continue reading
Posted in my travels, Real Ale, wildlife
Tagged Evan Evan's Cwrw, Evan Evan's Mayfly Premium Bitter, Llandeilo, National Trust, Newton Hose
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British Sundial Society Annual Conference
Last Thursday we trained to Gloucester, direct from Brighton, just over £6 each single fare. Called at the Dick Whittington for a coupleof pints and lunch. The landlord (Norman) came over and told us he used to live in Brighton … Continue reading
Posted in my travels, Real Ale, wildlife
Tagged British Sundial Society, Butcombe Gold, Mad Goose, Purity Ales, Springhead brewery
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Visiting Eridge Rocks, near Tunbridge Wells
On Friday the 30th March Jackie, Steve and I went out to join a guided tour of the Sussex Wildlife Trust’s Eridge Rocks Reserve. The outcrop is 138m years old and was formed in what was a huge delta as meandering, … Continue reading
The birds are coming
Yesterday evening, at about 8pm, we noticed the usual herring gull noise was getting much louder. Looking out and up we saw in excess of 100 gulls circling and squawking. After about 10 minutes they drifted away. Rather nice though … Continue reading
Garden bird update
The pair of bluetits which have been visiting the nest box high in the back yard are now taking in bits of nesting material – including stuff from a basket I hung up in the garden last year for that … Continue reading
Spring is in the Air
On Saturday 3rd March I saw toads in the garden pond for the first time this year, and then nearly stood on a frog standing still and erect on the lawn (well, the grassy area anyway). No sign of any … Continue reading
Norwich Trip – 28th Nov to 2nd December
Four of us stayed in a converted stable in the grounds of a pleasing Dutch Gabled Georgian house called Gildencroft once occupied by one of the Twinings tea family (Richard, between 1799 and 1835). The last few occupants have been … Continue reading
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Hardwick Hall – more glass than wall
Although the holiday was about making charcoal we did other stuff, I even went up a couple of days early and visited Bill and Liz Fargent (I shared a room with Bill in my first year at university, 1968 – … Continue reading
A week on the Lizard
My penultimate National Trust working holiday this year was based at a bunkhouse just a few hundred metres SE of Loe Bar, on the west side of the Lizard about 4 miles from Helston and the Blue Anchor. It seems … Continue reading
Posted in my travels, Real Ale, wildlife
Tagged Blue Anchor, Lizard lighthouse, Marconi, serpentine
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