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I hate Bank Holidays - in the rain - and we forgot to buy any Jamesons -
Sod's law?
There was a power cut last night - not surprising, it was very very windy.
There was no power at 3 a.m.
There was no power at 7 a.m.
There was no power at 9 a.m.
It turned out that there was power around 8 a.m. for just long enough to boil a kette - for those who hadn't gone back to bed and gone back to sleep. -
Blackberries!
Blackberries! Ripe blackberries growing in the garden!
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One-eyed reading
Arthur Ransome
Coot Club
Pigeon Post
Coots In The North
Rachel Trickett
The Elders
Rachel Anderson
Grandmother's Footsteps
T H White
Merlin's book
The Goshawk
Kenneth Alsop
Adventure Lit Their Star -
I Can See Clearly Now ----
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Radio Wales can't stop talking about longtailed tits - but "pink lollipops" doesn't have quite the same ring as "flying teaspoons", does it? -
Five things
5 for oursin
Squirrels
I spend a lot of time on Anglesey, looking for the red squirrels, but I haven’t sen any yet.
the Abbey Girls
there are three kinds of Abbey girls:
the Oxenham crowd:
Wycombe Abbey girls, of whom Audrey Beecham was one:
Reading Abbey girls, of which Shared Kitty’s Special person is one.
wild flowers
celandines are just beginning to ( Read more... ) -
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Cross-posted to What was that book?
Do you know a book in which two children go to Russia?
There are references to the METPO, to parachuting from a tower, and to eating Eskimos, which are either ice lollies or ice creams on a stick.
I think that I read it some time in the 1950s. -
RSPB Birdwatch
I noticed in time that birds flying over aren't to be included - so had to scratch the heron, the flock of starlings and the gulls.
1 robin
5 house sparrows
2 great tits
1 pied wagtail
2 starlings
1 blackbird
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R.I.P.
Patrick McGoohan
Tony Hart
John Mortimer
I'll just have to stop listening to the radio and stop reading newsappers
How strange though - I'd just watched the third episode of The Prisoner, amnd been told that it's to be remade