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June 20, 2010 | Owlish disaster this weekend

At the last tree, the dog came off the lead.  Imnediately  she retrieved live to hand.   A small thing with  big eyes. A baby owl.  I picked it up.  Smaller in my hands than the puffed up feathers would have you believe.

Our house is just up the track.  Fetched it back to a box [...]

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June 12, 2010 | Bird on Head series one: Robert Adam

This is Edinburgh.  Overwhelmingly grey but lovely.  Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer.  Adam, not the seagull.

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June 5, 2010 | A stunning oppo to see the washed and brushed side of farming at #

The Suffolk Show yesterday.     Hmmmmmmm – the washed and brushed side of farming.
Of a morning, If not completely zombied out,  Radio 4  Farming Today  is my aural cup of Ovaltine.  Frequently the drink goes cold and I don’t hear what that lovely breathless lady presenter is saying.  But enough gets through the [...]

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May 25, 2010 | Hippopotamus motions a table this week at Chelsea Flower Show

Dine out on it?

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May 3, 2010 | Design tip with Macaws

So how  do you liven up that  austere area of gravel, low hedges and grass in front of your grand house?  It needs to be tied into the romantic parkland  beyond.

Simple, give life and colour to the composition by setting out stands with huge macaws whose “violent scarlet and blue and green  plumage and raucous [...]

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May 2, 2010 | Celebrity pin-up of the Month

WHO?    Richard Mabey

WHY?  Because he has championed our native flora and fauna.  He writes beauttifully and makes me feel shivery with excitement about our British natural history.

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April 29, 2010 | Marauding chickens

I met Lyn for the first time a week or two back.  She was standing in Woodbridge’s Market Square and literally wringing her hands about the neighbour’s chickens.  She had taken down a fence to expose the country view and the poultry, from next door’s small holding had taken to swarming [...]

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