Monthly Archives: July 2015

The hangman

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Sadeik

For the whole week before the gamekeeping weekend the forecast was pretty dire, rain Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. I wonder if the weatherman was right? Well luckily for us he wasn’t right for Saturday and just as well … Continue reading →

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Toad in the hole

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Sadeik

Went to the rescue of a few newts and a toad down in the outside cellar of the Hall. It was nice and damp down there compared to the parched ground I saw when I arrived back in England. How … Continue reading →

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Botanical Heaven (better picture resolution, the last was rubbish)

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Sadeik

Hopefully these pictures will have a much higher resolution. You may have to wait a little before each photo becomes sharp and clear though.

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The Wood Fair at the Weald & Downland Museum

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Sadeik

A rather late blog post about a trip I did with the Bedford MJ a month ago. After visiting Mark Allery who lives in the South Downs (see https://sadeik.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/the-lynchmere-nightjar-shingles/) we then went down to the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum … Continue reading →

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The last episode of the Great Escape

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Sadeik

Palinka, a Hungarian double distilled spirit roughly 50|%, medicinal of course just one shot. Seems to work, takes all the aches and pains away and sort of acts like a Red Bull shot.

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The Great Escape, episode 2

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Sadeik

   

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The 18th July Random Photos in Passing

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Sadeik

Originally posted on Diary of Natural Environment In and Around Wimpole:
I decided to have a bath before taking the dogs out for their daily walk, went into the bathroom and I was beaten to it – there in the…

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The Great Escape

Posted on July 19, 2015 by Sadeik

A longish video of our trip to Romania when four men went to mow a meadow and learn a thing or two about how and why meadows in Romania are so floristically rich. Plus a good bit of banter and … Continue reading →

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The Wood Fair at the Weald & Downland Museum: gallery

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Sadeik

Some weeks ago I went from the West Country Scything Festival to the Weald & Downland Wood Fair to see if I could do something the same alongside Wimpole’s scythe festival. In fact I learnt rather a lot so will … Continue reading →

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Hot, hot & hotter

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Sadeik

The aftermath of the scything festival had to be the clearing up and the weather was getting hotter (pity Monday’s beautiful clear skies hadn’t come a bit earlier… on Sunday). First task was to sort the litter into general waste … Continue reading →

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The Wimpole scythe festival blog and results

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Sadeik

Friday night and people were turning up… unfortunately for us it started to rain and carried on for a while. I suppose we needed some water, things have been getting a bit dry here in East Anglia and our newly … Continue reading →

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One man went to mow a meadow (along with a lot of others)

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Sadeik

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The Lynchmere nightjar & shingles

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Sadeik

‘Tread softly because you tread on my dreams’ (W.B. Yeats); a small patch of the South Downs that I went to after Tinkers Bubble. I went to stay with Mark Allery and had a lovely spot to park the Bedford … Continue reading →

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Wimpole Insects No.3

Posted on July 4, 2015 by Sadeik

Originally posted on Diary of Natural Environment In and Around Wimpole:
Every thing has gone a little quiet after the mass migration in of the Painted Lady Butterflies but new insects keep turning up. One micro moth already reported –…

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Muscle vs fossil fuel

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Sadeik

Pedro at Tinkers Bubble has made me even more determined to raise the spectre of fossil fuel- although we can’t really do without it yet we can reduce the amount we use. Fuel guzzling engines are not always the answer … Continue reading →

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