BeenThere-DoneThat Blog

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Browsing Posts published in January, 2010

We’re not the only ones.

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You may think that we do go on a bit about the white chalk cliffs on the South Downs Coast and, of course we do, but we aren’t the only ones who think that the’re pretty special. Sussex Coast 1 Sussex Coast 2 We are not alone! Any more of you out there?

Beaky’s back.

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It started snowing around 7:30 this morning and it’s still going four hours later and it makes it difficult for a chap to get around when the snow comes up to the top of a chap’s legs. I wouldn’t like to be a bird this weather having to sit out all night and the best [...]

Have you noticed?

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This is for only those of you with thermostatically controlled heating. December 2009 was, apparently, the coldest December for 30 years which doesn’t surprise me and now, in January 2010, it’s still just as cold although the temperature, occasionally, does go up to just above freezing before it drops again. Let’s say you have your [...]

‘Beaky’ and friend.

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We had two cock pheasants walking together around our garden today which is a little unusual as they tend to be rather territorial. One of them we had seen before and had named him ‘Beaky’ because the top part of his beak was unusually long with a bit of a hook at the end. They [...]