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Post by rgsp on Feb 5, 2013 16:21:45 GMT
I said before that I would be pleased if I was wrong about your budding flower, Joyce, and so now it has turned out to be a genuine snowdrop, I am indeed genuinely pleased. Snowdrops do vary quite a lot.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2013 16:44:14 GMT
I said before that I would be pleased if I was wrong about your budding flower, Joyce, and so now it has turned out to be a genuine snowdrop, I am indeed genuinely pleased. Snowdrops do vary quite a lot. Thanks Rgsp - I was surprised and pleased, not gloating
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Post by rgsp on Feb 9, 2013 15:41:59 GMT
Week 6 is it now? The piggeries "lake" comes and goes, but it's about half its maximum extent right now. Trees are often tricky to get decent photographs of because they usually have other trees as background. However, this Betula "Jaquemontii" shows up well agains the Lawson's Cypress beyond. I never know whether to be ashamed because I've let this Field Maple grow to this shape, or pleased because I like it. However, either way it isn't in the league of our oldest, and possibly biggest, oak, which is not as old as the house, but getting on that way: The cloches I make up from steel and corrugated plastic aren't smart... ...but they are very tough, very convenient, and they do work, as this inside view shows! Couldn't resist this Iris Histriodes petal with rain drops on it. And just to finish, ordinary hawthorn (crataegus monogyna) is very variable, and one or two plants break their buds and come into leaf very early every year.
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Post by stockslave on Feb 14, 2013 0:52:25 GMT
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Post by 4wd on Feb 16, 2013 17:43:44 GMT
Hedge cutting around the deeper snowdrifts today. But the drift shapes are rather fascinating even when they have been melting quite a bit.
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Post by rgsp on Feb 16, 2013 18:14:20 GMT
No snow left here now, but there are some very wide sheep and some of the large flowered Dutch crocuses are coming through, as well as the little species types. The aconites here underneath the tulip tree are just about at their peak. They like it there now, leaf litter having built up, and as well as the ones you can see, there are many more tiny ones below flowering size as yet.
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Post by grawley on Feb 16, 2013 18:21:26 GMT
Photos taken this week.
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Post by matthew on Feb 18, 2013 17:56:38 GMT
Sunset last night - and it was a lovely day today, if cold. Attachments:
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Post by matthew on Feb 18, 2013 17:58:09 GMT
... excitement this afternoon. but not something i like to see this close. Attachments:
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Post by matthew on Feb 18, 2013 17:59:33 GMT
leaving the paddock. Attachments:
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Post by 4wd on Feb 18, 2013 18:03:50 GMT
Off for a pint of milk? ;D
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Post by matthew on Feb 18, 2013 20:31:53 GMT
Off for a pint of milk? ;D Could well have been 4wd. A land ambulance called to our neighbour (stroke, dementia etc, etc,) who had toppled over a rug and knocked himself out. Helicopter came too, but they chose a land ambulance so that his wife and a carer could travel with him to Truro. A long journey. I've a soft spot for the Air Ambulances, they saved my life. This was the nearest they'd landed to us anyway.
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Post by 4wd on Feb 18, 2013 20:37:16 GMT
Indeed, a neighbour broke her hip and it's more than 20 bumpy miles to the hospital by road - less than 10 minutes in the air ambulance. I'm sure the prompt specialised care and reduced trauma just getting there helped her speedy recovery.
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Post by genuinerisk on Feb 19, 2013 17:00:03 GMT
Air Ambulance - one of my favourite charities
Back to challenge
Here's Ava the Raver trying to get the calves to lick her... N. Hurley, the white heifer, had been obliging her but then stopped !
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Post by rgsp on Mar 2, 2013 13:22:52 GMT
Last week was a bit of a write-off as far as taking or posting piccies is concerned, but this morning was reasonably relaxed, so... Typical view of the lambing yard at the moment Whereas in the stable, Upsy-daisy ("U" year for Texel naming) has a comfy staw filled pen with a heat lamp still, and a box with milk in it and a teat on one side. Two rather wide ewes still have to lamb: due in two weeks. The field outside is now dry and hard enough to take the ewe lambs from last year, plus a couple of barreners. (After effects of Schmallenberg? Maybe, maybe not). Though there is some dissent about being shut out of the covered yard. The vegetation outside has hardly moved in two weeks, and the grass seems to be going backwards. The little winter irises are still coming out though, and nearing their peak. Cylamen are also coming out in places, along with a fair number of dutch-type crocuses in tall bud, like the one towards the front of this photograph.
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