That Friday Feeling

I’ve been tied up all week, the blog has been neglected and I’ve been tetchy for lack of me time; sunrises have teased, the sun peeping out for no more than a handful of minutes before disappearing  behind a curtain of cloud. In what little time I could snatch I couldn’t even convince the  giggly [...]

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All That Remains

Hands up who wanted to see the mummified bat?  Well here it is, with a sewing thimble to give you an idea of the scale. He/she looks as if they are sleeping peacefully, the bones are so tiny and delicate, is that the pelvis, bottom left?
 
As it’s Halloween and we’ve covered the origin of [...]

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Fly Like a Bird

Men and their flying machines, at the top of a hill.

 

Of course what goes up must come down,

Some landings are softer than others.
Whilst we were out and about we also watched three buzzards circling, their flying skills are far better than my skills at manual focusing the camera. So take [...]

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Run For Home

Happy and naturally dishevelled  geese at Heathylee farm Staffordshire

I didn’t realise that in some part of the world (but not Staffordshire I hasten to add) goose down for duvets and pillows is.

 plucked from live birds and the birds are ‘cropped’ every six weeks or so…..

Keep your chins up girls, you’re safe here.
below, [...]

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Happy Hour

A very happy hour, spent with a flask of tea watching the birds at Slapton Ley

A heron, oblivious to the comings and goings of he village of Torr Cross

A relaxed duck

A pair of gulls; Slapton Ley is a narrow stretch of fresh water separated from the sea by a shingle bank [...]

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Down on the Farm

Blaze Farm is a great place to take children, there is always plenty to see and the Hill Billy ice cream and the tea shop pleases young and old alike.

There is always a selection of farm animals on hand to pet, but you don’t lose sight of the fact that this is a working [...]

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A Mothers Work is Never Done

Whilst Boris is strutting his stuff, the peahen has her work cut out

A chick needs to be educated in the ways of the countryside

And today’s lesson is all about holly

Coming up soon from Blaze Farm, a bit of sheep shearing and and some more conventional farm animals.

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Boris

There can be no doubt about it, Boris is a bird with presence; he lives at Blaze farm, Wildboarclough, Cheshire, where they have lots of other birds and animals but none can match Boris’ coat of many colours, he’s made a brief appearance here before, last year, when he took his own reflection in a [...]

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Blue Bird (it’s child’s play really)

This is Boris, he is very beautiful,
 

I have more photos to show you, but for now I can go to bed happy that I have managed to  adjust, crop, copy and get a  photo to this blog, having today unwrapped a copy of Lightroom photo editing software, it seems mightily sophisticated compared to [...]

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First Floor Office

 
I’m not very good at settling down and cracking on with some work when there are distractions around, I just can’t shut out background noise very easily and other peoples phone conversations derail my train of thought. So a couple of weeks ago Joe and I hauled some furniture around and made me a little [...]

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