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Visitors
Look at some of the beautiful visitors we’ve had to our garden recently. The black and white striped insect is a day-flying moth called the Jersey Tiger Moth – very striking. And don’t you think the underside of the Red … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged Covid, garden, gardening for wildlife, jersey tiger moth, peacock butterfly, scotland, summer holidays, wildlife
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Pants
Last Thursday, the most amazing sound filled the evening air. Bells! I don’t think I’d realised how much I’d missed hearing them until they were ringing again. Thursday night is bell-ringing night at the parish church behind our house. Or, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged allotment produce show, bell ringing, bells, children, coffee, community, community cafe, community nursing, countryside, COVID-19, district nursing, fete, july, library, meadowsweet, nurse, nursing, pandemic, pants, rain, school holidays, summer, summer reading challenge, tansy
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Good Farmers
Here’s the view from our camping pod, early on Sunday morning, nipping out to the loo. It was wonderful to be somewhere different and look out on rolling hills. It’s a fabulous farm, not far from us, where the sense … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged camping, children, Chris Stringer, close contact, Covid, dairy farms, deforestation, degradation, devon, environment, erosion, family farms, farming, feedlots, food, Homo Britannicus, interglacial, isolation, kitchen, local economy, monocultures, parenting, pen feeding, pesticides, provenance, regenerative farming, slash and burn, small farms, soil health
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Steam and song
On Sunday, bubbling pans on the hob, we had the kitchen windows open to let out the steam. A soft rain fell outside, the gentle putter of the falling drops punctuating by the occasional ding of a larger drop hitting … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things, Making changes, Wildlife
Tagged 2021, bike ride, birdsong, blackbird, blue tit, Covid, COVID-19, cycling, daffodils, lockdown, nature, rain, river, spring, vaccinations
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Bennett’s Cross
On Dartmoor there is a crooked stone cross beside the road between Moretonhampstead and Postbridge. Folklore has it that the cross was erected as a boundary marker by a tin miner named William Bennett in the 16th century. Looking out across … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes, Wildlife
Tagged "This too shall pass", 16th century, Birch Tor, common lizard, Dartmoor, devon, dragonflies, family, fishing net, folklore, granite, history, minnows, Moretonhampstead, open cast mining, paddling, perspective, picnic, Postbridge, Redwater Brook, ruins, southwest, spoil heaps, stannery, stream, tin mining, tinner, tomatoes, Vitifier Tin Mine, walk, William Bennett
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World Book Day 2020
It is light now when I come in from my morning bike rides. The riverbanks are full of bird song and lolloping bunnies. In the streets near us, front garden shrubs explode with sparrow chatter as we pass on the … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged 2020, Author events, birdsong, book characters, book launch, capes, Cardboard Kingdom, cardboard modelling, children's books, comics, costumes, cycling, favourite characters, Hannah Foley, Harry Potter, How Billy Hippo Learned His Colours, illustrator, independent bookshop, light, Little Door Books, parenting, Portobello Bookshop, rabbits, sparrows, spring, the Beast, vivian french, World Book Day
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Wings
The rain has finally stopped, and given way to frost, ice and spectacular wintery skies. A flock of long-tailed tits flew into the garden the other morning as I hung out the washing. They gathered on the Japanese maple, chattering … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged angel, crabapple tree, dressing up box, frost, ice, Japanese maple, Long-tailed Tits, nativity, parenting, star, wings, winter
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Bluebells
It’s official. I have passed! Now it’s over to the NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council) to issue me with my PIN and I will be back on the register. I start my job as a District Nurse next Tuesday, working … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged bluebells, Dartmoor, district nurse, emsworthy mire, garden centre, gardening, gardening with kids, gardening with toddlers, insects, milk, NMC, nursing, overhanging branchs, oxygenating plants, PIN, pond, Return to Practice, scone, shade, vegetation, wildlife
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Blue tits
The most exciting thing has happened. There are blue tits nesting in the bird box we put up on our gable end! We have seen the parents flying in and out, and when our bedroom window is open there is a … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Wildlife
Tagged bird box, bird feeder, blackbird, blue tits, cats, devon, gable end, gardening, hedgehog, RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, sparrows, swifts, victorian terrace, Wilder Future, wildlife, wood pigeons
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