The Cockchafer..
The cockchafer or the ‘doodlebug’, a nickname later given to the V-1 flying bomb of WWII for their similarities in sound made during flight. […]
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Let it SNOW, let it snow!
Storm Caroline forecast for tomorrow, Friday the 8th.
Ordered the Turkey?
Off to our favourite butcher. Difficult in a quiet shop to understand what he says. A mixture of a nervous tick, Welsh, […]
Donkey (horse) play
Got the divil in them again,
Arkwrights
A small hardware store in Rhayader made its own Christmas video. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/fun-stuff/tiny-welsh-hardware-store-created-13943298 This shop is extra-ordinary – just like the original Arkwright […]
The surge
Overnight rain was followed bye a drier patch and the river went down four feet. It’s gone down a foot in an […]
Wet feet
OK, let’s not dwell on this, I fell in the Wye, I know, act your age, “I told you not to get […]
Another Egret
Gotcha! Not brilliant, but got a picture of him. According to the RSPB, there are 35 in the country – is this […]
Daffodil planting time
The first major planting in the garden for some years. Roll on Spring!
Egrets, I have a few
Great white that is Shown courtesy of RSPB. The local twitterati have mentioned a sighting upstream from us, and now we have […]
Two in two days – cluck, cluck.
Two chucks died in two days, not a good week, and not a good record. One of the old girls, a real […]