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Category Archives: Environment
Another field fire?
Not sure because I can’t see the source of the smoke, but it looks an awful lot like it could be a field fire. I do know of one idiot who has started a bonfire in the last few weeks, … Continue reading
Wildfires in France and Spain
I’ve been quite shocked seeing coverage of the wildfires currently burning in France and Spain. I can’t even begin to envisage what the evacuation of a third of a million people must be like. It’s also a little discomforting to … Continue reading
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I’m so relieved
I don’t enjoy hot weather at the best of times and trying to cope whilst messing about with one’s circulatory system makes it even harder, so seeing the sky looking like this today was really quite a relief. I’m not … Continue reading
Accepting second best
We have almost no ragwort growing this year, so these little chaps are eating the groundsel instead, which, to be fair, I’m quite happy for them to do as I’ve clearly failed to weed it. And I love seeing the … Continue reading
We all know that it hasn’t rained in England for decades
This article, for example. I’m slightly bemused by this paragraph As of Monday, East Anglia, the West Midlands, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire and London, Wessex, Thames, Solent and the South Downs, are in … Continue reading
Get orf moi larrrrnd!
Clearly forage is getting tough to find for the creatures of twilight given the dry weather. Fortunately this one is just eating weeds, though the roe deer have done a fair bit of damage in my veggie plot this year … Continue reading
I think my neighbour is “retiring”
Or giving up farming, as it were. This is one of his fields. In almost twenty-five years he’s never left it go like this. Other fields are the same. He keeps/kept cattle, and whilst I’m sure I can still hear … Continue reading
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A new friend
We’ve had loads of these in the house this Summer. They’ve never invaded before. I have no idea why they’re moving in. I can’t imagine there’s much for them to eat here. I’ve read that butterflies seem to be doing … Continue reading
Have I fallen into a scene from “The Birds”?
When I was “out and about” this afternoon I noticed huge numbers of crows circling above the house. It was hard to get a photo as I couldn’t see them on the screen of my phone, but there were easily … Continue reading
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I am so not looking forward to this
Forecast for the next few days: and since I grabbed that screenshot I think it’s got even hotter 🙁 I might have to emigrate to Lapland.