BeenThere-DoneThat Blog

A blog about life and travel in Great Britain

Browsing Posts published in December, 2011

Happy Christmas

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We wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our visitors. Do enjoy yourselves.

So, was it muddy?

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What do you think? And that was just 5 minutes into the walk. Just been on a 4.3 mile walk taking 1 hour 22 minutes according to the GPS in my phone. Some of it across fields, hence the above picture, some through woods, some along country lanes and one part along the top of [...]

We talk about it all the time.

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The weather of course! What a change from last year. December last year we were up to our ears in snow, well nearly, and temperatures were well below freezing for most of the time. Rather Arctic in fact. This December we haven't yet had temperatures down to freezing overnight, at 33F (0.6C), nearly, but not [...]

Living with an old fossil

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No! It isn't me. We have just discovered that there is an animal living in this country which has remained unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. It is 'Triops' otherwise known as the 'Tadpole Shrimp'. Amanda, being a biologist, was particularly surprised that she didn't know of it. It does look rather cute, a [...]