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Spring Outing
Our first outing now that Lockdown has eased slightly was to Kedleston Hall near Derby. We’d recently joined the National Trust to give us some places to visit over the next few months and this was the first one. It’s a country house with parkland around it. It has the usual open views from the…
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Garden Gym
We need to keep exercising during Lockdown although our options for rambling and similar are restricted. We can find options in the garden … Susan is improving the lawn and taking exercise at the same time! Both are benefitting from a session of lawn aerating.
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Ancestry Snippet
One of the things I’ve been doing during lockdown is to research family history. Every now and then something pops up that generates a smile or an interest. This is one. This is a picture of Mrs Westowby’s Almshouses in Keldgate, Beverley. It popped up as a residence for Hannah Twiddle in the 1891 and…
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The Frogs have arrived!
The pond is alive with frogs. There didn’t seem to be any when I looked a couple of days ago. How they all agree on when to arrive is a mystery. The Frogs must have arrived overnight as there were several clumps of frogspawn this morning. I expect more frogspawn during the next few days.…
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Kelly’s cheery painted shells.
Kelly had heard Nigel mentioning about a local lady leaving brightly painted objects to brighten people’s days. She thought that this was a great idea and decided to do this herself. OK, so the first thing to do was to find some shells and then to paint them. Here are Kelly and Shakira in Ingoldmells…
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Garden Bird Feeders
Especially during the recent cold spell the birds have been coming to feed on the seeds, etc. that we have for them in the garden. Here are a few short video clips of some of the birds we’ve seen. Oh – and a little surprise visitor or two in the dark!
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Watery Trent Walk
We thought we’d be fine this time. We’d set off with the idea of walking a little further. Down the Erewash Canal to the River Trent, along the river bank to the Cranfield Canal, and then back home up Pasture Lane. Well … We’d set off early to avoid meeting too many people and we’d…
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COVID Action
It’s strange what you find to write about nowadays – he’s a couple of COVID related comments of the last few days. A letter from the NHS – what could that be? It turned out to be a COVID testing kit. We’d never been part of a national survey before and often wondered how people…
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Beaten by a puddle!
We are exercising from home in line with the lockdown regulations. We decided on a little longer walk today, we’d done it before … it proved to be different today. We were walking down towards Trent Lock and then intended to go over the fields and under the railways to return home via Trent Lane.…
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Lockdown Walks
We’re taking our exercise and enjoying being out in the fresh air – albeit limited at this time. Here’s a new one for us – parking in front of Sawley Church and walking to the newly discovered Orchid Wood. Orchid Wood was made a Local Nature Reserve in April 2020. It has a main perimeter…
