Levelling Up

  The peregrine falcon chick has been ringed and is a falcon; if male she would be a tiercel. This morning she jumped up on the balcony wall for the first time.

In the Wars

Beagles are supposed to be a healthy breed but Bertie is bucking the trend.

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Something Fishy

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you. (I Thessalonians iv:11)

A Dog’s Dinner

Bertie is off-colour. He had a sore paw and then caught kennel cough in the vets’ waiting room.

A War Trilogy

I am re-reading these three Brother Cadfael short stories out of nostalgia and because this slim volume fits into the pocket of my top coat.

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Famine

Only one egg hatched this year and the chick is now three weeks old and taking a look at the outside world for the first time.

Hangman’s Holiday

I plucked this slim vol of shorters to read on a train because it fitted into a pocket of my top coat.

A Swale

Almost five years ago R and I had a walking holiday in Swaledale.

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