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Browsing Posts published in March, 2007

Flowers and Houses

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Today is fine and sunny so I decided to walk across the fields to our local wood to see if the Wood Anemonies were flowering and indeed they were. They are not yet at their best as all the flowers are not yet out so perhaps in a week or two they will be as [...]

Time is of the essence

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One step nearer summer – the clocks went forward one hour last night so we are now in British Summer Time (BST). This has advantages – whereas it got dark about 6:30 PM yesterday it now gets dark at 7:30 PM and that, of course, will get later as the day length increases. It also [...]

Spring has un-sprung!

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Since my previous post about the spring-like weather it has become rather wintry again. We have had a few snow showers, one with snowflakes about an inch and a quarter across, although the snow had gone from the ground an hour later but some sun as well and it is cold. It's not freezing but [...]

Distant Horizons

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We are starting to talk about our trips for this year. The only one which is set in stone at present is a short trip, two nights, in Lavenham, Suffolk at the end of April. Lavenham, an amazing small medieval market town of timber-framed buildings, is already featured on the web site but we like [...]

Spring has sprung

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It was sunny and mild this morning so we drove to Tiptree Heath, a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), for a walk round. The Gorse (Ulex europaeus) is starting to flower although not yet at it’s best. Gorse is typical of heathland as is Heather and, although heather does not flower until around July, [...]