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Crunching…
Crunching…

Frozen George’s pond

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golden globes ..
golden globes ..

Aconite

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Looking backwards to go forwards ..
Looking backwards to go forwards ..

Broad (Fava) bean ‘Aquadulce’

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Birds.

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Bossing it …
Bossing it …

Juvenile robin in moult ..

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Chiffchaff
Chiffchaff

The first half of this year was amongst the worst on record for invertebrates.

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Green day …
Green day …

The garden is full of bird movement. Greenfinches have returned to the bird feeders in numbers.

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Veggies.

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Looking backwards to go forwards ..
Looking backwards to go forwards ..

Broad (Fava) bean ‘Aquadulce’

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A pancheon of soup …
A pancheon of soup …

Vegetable soup for lunch..

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Beans
Beans

We grow beans for drying. They climb up our sticks over the summer, flowering and then, when pollinated will grow pods.

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Eat Yourself Healthy.

Mammals.

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months and years ..
months and years ..
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Circling crazily ..

Holy moley. Warm dark night. Windows & doors open. Suddenly a large bat circling crazily at speed in the lounge.

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Tiggywinkle..?
Tiggywinkle..?

Hedgehogs were once common.

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Invertebrates.

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Southern hawker
Southern hawker

In repose ..

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Aurora
Aurora

Common carder bee

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Moth night
Moth night

Earlier our male kestrel  (Falco tinnunculus)  rejoiced as he flew into the big birch with a kill.

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Herpetofauna.

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I become a boar …
I become a boar …
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When a day can’t get any better..
When a day can’t get any better..

A common lizard emerges from under the settee and sets off at speed across the carpet. 

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Boom & bust..?
Boom & bust..?

Our second year without frogspawn.

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Meadow.

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welcome rain..
welcome rain..

Today the orchard meadow was strimmed and the hay mounded.

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Olympic inspiration…!
Olympic inspiration…!

Staying at Center Parcs, village Nature, Paris as a base from which we’d visit the Olympics.

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Scabious
Scabious

Field scabious now flowering in the meadow.

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Seeds.

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Wildflower seed sowing…
Wildflower seed sowing…

A good drop of rain forecast. Warm weather. Optimal for casting wildflower seeds.

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The memory maple..
The memory maple..

Field maple (acer campestre) is a pretty little native tree. One of my favourites. And I’ve always nurtured little native trees and shrubs wherever I can find them…

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Mullered..
Mullered..

I’m fascinated by yellow rattle.

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Compost.

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Poignant
Poignant

The cycle of the season turns and there is the satisfaction that all that time composting grass and weeds and cardboard and paper and kitchen waste has been productive.

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Luxurious
Luxurious

Several days of morning frost. Despite the frost, moles are active. Many molehills and moles’ surface tunnels.

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Soil conditioner extraordinaire!
Soil conditioner extraordinaire!

Vital in the organic no-dig garden. Browns & greens mixed. Layered up and turned once.

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Ponds.

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Four-spotted
Four-spotted

Newcomers to George’s pond - four-spotted chasers

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Orchard pond
Orchard pond

Ponds bring great richness to gardens. Thousands of ponds have been lost due to the 'improvement' of agricultural land - to the great detriment of wildlife.

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Frost
Frost

Waxwings and George’s Pond in the frost…

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In Bloom.

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golden globes ..
golden globes ..

Aconite

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Fleabane
Fleabane

Small copper on Mexican fleabane

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Water mint..
Water mint..

Water mint (mentha aquatica) is now playing a blinder around the pond.

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Climate Change.

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Have we already lost the war..?
Have we already lost the war..?

Hubert Reeves has it. ‘Man is at war with Nature. And if he wins he loses’.

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Realising a vision for building biomass and recovering nature…
Realising a vision for building biomass and recovering nature…

I’ve got this vision that calls to mind the memory of the massive Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station.

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Collision..
Collision..

The decision of the new government to remove the ban on the construction of land-based wind turbines is to be welcomed.

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