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Another Year Blessed With Alfie the Lurcher
Happy Adoption Day Alfie!
As you get older, some decisions you take have bigger impacts than others. The day we adopted Alfie our lives have been turned upside down. In those six years we’ve had to work out many things, but may be the most challenging was keeping Alfie out of bins!
Happy Adoption Day Alfie, our lives all the richer for having you in it…
Want to see what 526 Lapwings and 89 Starlings Look Like?
It happened a couple of weeks ago. A chance glance out of the studio window and there they were, swarming in the distance, five hundred and twenty six lapwings and eighty nine starlings. Read more
Otterly Perplexing
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The Longest Day - A Day of Two Halves

When the final cry of the curlew is heard but not recognised
Pivotal Moment for Sun Lane Green Belt
I’ve lost any sense of how long I’ve been standing here in this hedge. The twine of barbed wire and bramble pressing into my thigh is marginally more bearable than the stench seeping out of the weighty poo bags that hang out in this same hedge. Time evaporates as I watch the first midges of the year stretch their wings and dance, backlit by the shards of early evening sunlight. It’s hypnotic. A sudden, abstract flash of white in the distance catches my eye and snatches me away from my daze. I’m on full alert. It’s blurred and masked by several other hedgerows but there’s no doubt in my mind. She’s here.Read more