May 2010
Bank Holiday Weekend
Monday, May 31st, 2010
Guests in the cottage enjoying a Bank Holiday Weekend. Cycling, walking, the Hay Festival and the two dams walk.
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Was this our summer?
Friday, May 28th, 2010
A hot weekend in Rhayader with outings to Llanidloes and Aberystwth. The important meal of the day, and one of Britain’s most magnificent secret places.
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Tragedy
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Nature red in tooth and claw.
Our blackbird pair, nesting in a corner of our car port, had been very good parents sitting on the nest for two weeks. On Saturday morning as I was passing the front of the car port the cock blackbird flew in with a beak-full of food,
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Cuckoos, osprey, woodpeckers, Peregrine falcons and squirrels
Friday, May 21st, 2010
It’s a great moment when you hear that first cuckoo of Spring, and we heard our first way back on the 17th April. Of course while the first is a joy and a promise of better weather and new growth, it is now mid May and the pleasure has long since dissolved in the endless repetition.
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
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