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I went back with my camera this morning and it turns out that it was a bird standing by its nest rather than one roosting that I saw yesterday - fortunately with a lot of zoom at my disposal and not having left the verge of the fairly busy road I can be confident that I didn’t disturb them as that w15 views I went back with my camera this morning and it turns out that it was a bird standing by its nest rather than one roosting that I saw yesterday - fortunately with a lot of zoom at my disposal and not having left the verge of the fairly busy road I can be confident that I didn’t disturb them as that w View through the pub window: Barry Goodman himself playing “Four Up” - the best of many renditions during the Toddington Tour as it is perennially popular… I’m glad we didn’t do the dance we do to it! Here’s what it sounds like https://youtu.be/HPQuUA1K0TU Anyway, a good dance out with a bunch of ot8 views View through the pub window: Barry Goodman himself playing “Four Up” - the best of many renditions during the Toddington Tour as it is perennially popular… I’m glad we didn’t do the dance we do to it! Here’s what it sounds like https://youtu.be/HPQuUA1K0TU Anyway, a good dance out with a bunch of ot I started work at 0635 when it was a mere 29°C at my desk, to get some stuff done before the temperature gets too high, and it has already gone up a degree. Tell me again how climate change is not happening or is in the future. The future is here, and we’re boiling like the proverbial frogs. Yeah, y7 views I started work at 0635 when it was a mere 29°C at my desk, to get some stuff done before the temperature gets too high, and it has already gone up a degree. Tell me again how climate change is not happening or is in the future. The future is here, and we’re boiling like the proverbial frogs. Yeah, y Cycled to work for first time in god knows how long - a year? Two? It was a summer but not this summer, anyway. This hill is big and knackering, but the view is good at least. Still I made it, on my hack bike for reasons best left to themselves. Now I just need the building to actually open so I can7 views Cycled to work for first time in god knows how long - a year? Two? It was a summer but not this summer, anyway. This hill is big and knackering, but the view is good at least. Still I made it, on my hack bike for reasons best left to themselves. Now I just need the building to actually open so I can

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🔥 Top post I went back with my camera this morning and it turns out that it was a bird standing by its nest rather than one roosting that I saw yesterday - fortunately with a lot of zoom at my disposal and not having left the verge of the fairly busy road I can be confident that I didn’t d… ★ 15
Today’s exciting delivery #Cornemuse #CornemuseDuCentre #Europipes #Bagpipes #EnglishBorderPipes ★ 3 View through the pub window: Barry Goodman himself playing “Four Up” - the best of many renditions during the Toddington Tour as it is perennially popular… I’m glad we didn’t do the dance we do to it! Here’s what it sounds like https://you… ★ 8 I started work at 0635 when it was a mere 29°C at my desk, to get some stuff done before the temperature gets too high, and it has already gone up a degree. Tell me again how climate change is not happening or is in the future. The future … ★ 7 Fingers crossed this is correct, and won’t slip out of adjustment! #DutchBike #InternalHubGears Can anyone explain the logic behind this please? Faster delivery costs less and has a longer-sounding name…? ★ 4 I left the blind up and window closed over night, and sitting down at my desk to start work it is a tad warm on the windowsill… ★ 2 In November 2004 I went on a trip to Somerset. We visited Wells Cathedral, stayed in a youth hostel and had a spiffing time. One day we went to Glastonbury and having admired the abbey and King Arthur’s grave it was misty and raining. A fe… ★ 3 Cycled to work for first time in god knows how long - a year? Two? It was a summer but not this summer, anyway. This hill is big and knackering, but the view is good at least. Still I made it, on my hack bike for reasons best left to thems… ★ 7 Back to mornings of hauling water from the well for the allotment. Inconvenient, but not disastrous, and not to supply our whole diet. Must remember to donate to https://www.wateraid.org/uk when I get home, for those for whom this is a dai… ★ 6 Lovely wander round my patch this morning - little grebe on the pond, flyover by a couple of little egrets, heard my first cuckoo of the year and a visit from a sparrowhawk too :-) #Birding #PatchBirding #LowCarbonBirding ★ 5 As the bird feeder was empty I took it down, and the top of the stand above the squirrel guard so that it can’t be used as a potentially contaminated perch that’d spread disease without offering the benefits of at least getting some food. … ★ 2

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About

Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.

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Today’s exciting delivery #Cornemuse #CornemuseDuCentre #Europipes #Bagpipes #EnglishBorderPipes View through the pub window: Barry Goodman himself playing “Four Up” - the best of many renditions during the Toddington Tour as it is perennially popular… I’m glad we didn’t do the dance we do to it! Here’s what it sounds like https://youtu.be/HPQuUA1K0TU Anyway, a good dance out with a bunch of ot I started work at 0635 when it was a mere 29°C at my desk, to get some stuff done before the temperature gets too high, and it has already gone up a degree. Tell me again how climate change is not happening or is in the future. The future is here, and we’re boiling like the proverbial frogs. Yeah, y Fingers crossed this is correct, and won’t slip out of adjustment! #DutchBike #InternalHubGears Can anyone explain the logic behind this please? Faster delivery costs less and has a longer-sounding name…? I left the blind up and window closed over night, and sitting down at my desk to start work it is a tad warm on the windowsill… In November 2004 I went on a trip to Somerset. We visited Wells Cathedral, stayed in a youth hostel and had a spiffing time. One day we went to Glastonbury and having admired the abbey and King Arthur’s grave it was misty and raining. A few hardy souls set off up the Tor while the rest of us retreat Cycled to work for first time in god knows how long - a year? Two? It was a summer but not this summer, anyway. This hill is big and knackering, but the view is good at least. Still I made it, on my hack bike for reasons best left to themselves. Now I just need the building to actually open so I can

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