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Bee wars
Some strange behaviour seen in our street this morning. Our front gardens are at about elbow height when you are on the pavement, which lends itself to nature observation while walking to the post box. There’s a slightly tatty house up the road, with an uncut bit of grass out front which is full of…
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Living with Carnivores
The Cats have excelled themselves. Not content with hibernating away from the cold weather, (normal positions on a cold night, J against one leg, E against the other, each with head pillowed on a shin, me pinned and wakeful) they’ve been out hunting overnight. The garden is crisscrossed with catly footprints. Generally speaking, Jules is…
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Essex extremes
I do like a mix and match day. So we started with a couple of kilometres of walking round Rainham Marshes bird reserve. Not many birds to see, but there’s not much to beat a marsh in the sun; a beautiful morning, a stolen September summer Sunday, wandering about in shirtsleeves with the end of…
Cherry Potts, Writer 