I woke this morning to a frosty world and the sun through the woods. Sadness for what is to come, the loss of Tobacco and Motherfuss, and my father being seen by the dialysis team properly today 😕

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Some 85% of my f-list will be with me on this! Before I had to use the wheelchair to go out I would come back with pebbles, feathers, twigs, leaves, acorns, conkers, in my pockets 😊 The weirdest and most memorable was the old false teeth I found in the woods here Midsummers Day 😃😃😄
Lovely Radio 3 - Pebble Collectors article 😊

A terrible deadly forest fire sweeping central Portugal has claimed the lives of 61 people including 4 children, many who were killed in their cars trying to escape the fires.

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Just some of the truly gorgeous poppies from the garden today 😍


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Rather handsome but somewhat warty, tonight's toad visitor was heard rustling through the leaves by the back door 😊

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And now this heinous despicable crime which I learnt from Cole and Marmalade ... Two beautiful elderly rescue lions have been Deliberately killed in their Sanctuary in South Africa. The Sanctuary is for abused and displaced big cats and one of the lions had suffered brain damage from being hit so much when he was in the illegal circus. They had ( Read more... )

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This I love! This little fox Cub was discovered by house owners after their cat stared for hours at the sofa and eventually went to check it out! Poor little cub was dehydrated and malnourished and hiding under the sofa, well that's different then!! At least he's getting the food and water he needs now 😊
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This is the problem that's always existed but the Internet has made more likely to be caught out due to the sharing of cute pictures, cute videos of tame or wild animals. A sea lion, wild as they should be was being fed by people so when he saw the little girl sitting on the harbour wall in a split second it grabbed her dress and dragged her ( Read more... )

Today's carer, backing away edgily from the kitchen door, announces sounding rather panicky "The cats playing with some enormous bug!". Upon confirmation it is about one inch, a huge big bugger, big carapace, "Ah," I say "It's a cockchafer" She looks at me horrified, "It's a what?". Now I don't know for certain what she was thinking but I can ( Read more... )