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| Fay and Lady Jane Gray |
See John Gray has acquired two cockerel bantams (after a hard fall, poor soul) he will be happy with them, needy little creatures, our two have settled down happily. Pick a bantam up, stroke their tiny necks, and bliss occurs as their eyes close. We gave C an egg yesterday and she marvelled at the smallness of them. They are perfect, two will make the right amount of scrambled eggs.
Yesterday, over the moors to Wheeldale, think it must be Lucy's most favourite place, she senses the place even before she is out of the car. I sat on the rock and listened to the beck trickling over the rocks, a most soothing sound, the heather is just beginning to appear, and the green bracken marches with great vigour over the slopes. Clear cutting of the evergreens has taken place, but it does not look as bad as the Eskdalemuir battle field of stumps and brown earth.
I should 'doctor' the photos and take the car out, but not at the moment, because I have moved back into my room upstairs, and Lucy is barking downstairs now, feeling lonely, and wondering why we are not out feeding birds and then her!
I forgot the hedgerows lined with rowan trees in full red berry, a good winter feed for those birds coming in to feed in our warmer climes.
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Lovely cool photos of the beck
ReplyDeleteIt is very low but still moving over the ford, the rain earlier last week has kept our rivers topped up Sue.
DeleteAh, peaty streams remind me of the New Forest and Dartmoor. Happy days paddling in the former spot, and walking across Dartmoor. Glad that Lucy got to visit her favourite place.
ReplyDeleteShe loves the water, Paul gets scared about her going in but she is hardly likely to be swept away, though she did end up in a deep hole yesterday.
DeleteLovely pictures Thelma - very restful. The heather is just coming into flower here too. I love it as my sitting room window looks over East Witton Fell and for just a short while it will be purple with heather
ReplyDeletebut it doesn't last long does it?
As for the rowan berries - I notice round here that already the birds are eating them - blackbirds adore them - but every year I wish I could tell them to leave them for their cousins the fieldfares and redwings when there is a food shortage.
Like all flowering plants and shrubs short lived 'tis the anticipation, though there are problems with monocultures of specific plants. It is funny that the land before the moor is seemingly poor land, or at least not well farmed. The hedgerow is more rowan than hawthorn.
DeleteSo very different to the landscapes we have here in West Sussex. Lovely to see other parts of our beautiful country.
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Britain is very beautiful, whether it is Wales, Scotland, England or Ireland, all that rain, when it appears, helps of course.
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