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Category: The garden

Love Island…
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  • 23 February 2020
  • 2 mins
  • 6 years
  • 249 words
  • 4

Love Island…

Don’t get too excited – I know it’s not PC, but it’s the first thing that sprang to mind.  Subject = Island.  […]

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River update
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  • 23 February 2020
  • 3 mins
  • 6 years
  • 372 words
  • 2

River update

This morning at 5.30, the river was three feet above normal.  When we emerge, the first thing, almost sub-consciously, is to listen […]

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Dennis more
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  • 17 February 2020
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  • 6 years
  • 268 words
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Dennis more

As of dusk last night, both groundwater and river levels had fallen. The river was down to four feet above normal, and […]

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Area / Doings / The cottage / The garden / The Seasons / The Wye / Weather
  • 16 February 2020
  • 2 mins
  • 6 years
  • 227 words
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Dennis 3

There’s no traffic on the A470, so it is probably closed northbound, and it is closed southbound at Builth Wells.  Large HGVs […]

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  • 16 February 2020
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  • 6 years
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Dennis 2

Dawn broke to reveal a river about eight feet above normal. this is the top step of the seven or eight down […]

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Doings / The animals / The garden / The Seasons
  • 22 January 2020
  • 2 mins
  • 6 years
  • 215 words
  • 1

By special request…

the stupendous one, the ultimate showman, the dandy of the den, the one and only, ladies and gentlemen I give you…   […]

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Area / The cottage / The garden / Weather
  • 12 January 2020
  • 2 mins
  • 6 years
  • 275 words
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Pleasant chappie…

… I think that is what he is known as.  The male pheasant has up to eight female pheasants in the grounds […]

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Area / The garden / The Seasons
  • 12 January 2020
  • 3 mins
  • 6 years
  • 319 words
  • 1

Sleepy lagoon…

well not quite, as you (might) know the theme tune for “Desert Island Discs”, but this is our idyllic place to spend […]

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Area / Christmas / Doings / Joan Whittle / The animals / The cottage / The garden / The Seasons / Weather
  • 30 December 2019
  • 2 mins
  • 6 years
  • 261 words
  • 1

Oh! what a year it’s been…

… much like all the others really!  But at this time of year it fills the visual and aural BBC airwaves with […]

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Doings / The animals / The garden
  • 29 December 2019
  • 2 mins
  • 6 years
  • 275 words
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Wonky donks go!

Our photogenic donks for most of the year graze our sparse pasture.  Donks do sparse, it is something to bear in mind […]

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