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Browsing Posts published in December, 2010

Happy Christmas

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Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our visitors. It's Christmas Eve and there is still snow on the ground so it will be a White Christmas after all. We certainly haven't had many of those. Only a week to the new year and we'll hope to see at least some of you [...]

Winter Solstice 2010

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Well, that's the winter solstice over! Last night should have been the longest night, although I didn't stay up to measure it, and the days now start to get longer. Does this mean that we can start to think about next year's trips? This country is still in the grip of Arctic style weather and [...]

Nature’s Colour Palette

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These photographs were taken within a few minutes of each other between 7:00 and 7:30 AM this morning. This one was while the sun was still below the horizon: and this one just as the sun showed above the horizon: You can see a little bit of the sun at the bottom showing as a [...]

Pas de Deux

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Our snow had reached a thickness of one foot by yesterday and Amanda had been putting food out on our terrace for the birds. We had seen various birds feeding, including Robins, but yesterday, for the first time, a Grey Wagtail turned up. It turned out to be a stroppy little thing and when the [...]