1. Developed an excellent technique for getting medication into Theo's giant floppy ears.  For some reason, it's fine if I put the medicine on my finger and then my finger into his ears.  Ears are now sorted.


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At first, she flew joyfully after them
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Yesterday I slew most of a giant buddleia bush, which was infested with an interesting quantity of fungus.  Henning and Bob the Robin both showed considerable interest in proceedings.  ( Read more... )

Randomly we went to Rame Head: a long tall bulge of land pointing out into the sea.

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I saw a lot of larks on my morning walk today, and it struck me that normally you don't see larks much - you only hear them, singing high overhead.   But these larks seemed to have lost their cloaking devices, and were quite obvious, flying straight up while singing a song that sounded very much like the noise that 'Space Invaders' use to make.   ( Read more... )

I was looking out over the valley one morning this week, when I heard a huge sound. Not a very loud sound, but the sort of noise that is only made by quite large things. I thought at first it was a train, and then I realised that the nearest station is too far away. It sounded like the train was going past on the track that would once have run ( Read more... )

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Phonecall from my mother to say that she has had a rook with a damaged wing stuck in her back garden for several days, and will I come over and help her catch it so she can take it to the vet as despite being fed and watered and given a perch to sit on, it does not seem to be improving ( Read more... )

When we arrived in Looe last week, it was freezing cold with a steely grey sky.   I was pleased I'd resolved to walk in the woods rather than along the coast. 
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