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Good News from Su and Richard Wheeler, at Logaston Press.
They are reprinting my first book, Iolo’s Revenge again (5th impression!) because, they say it just sells and sells! I’m sure this, in part, is due to their efforts and reputation as publishers, for which I am very grateful and also to Wendy Wigley for her delightful illustrations that lift it to another level! Iolo’s Revenge ISBN 978-1-910839-24-9 £10 Available from Fircone Books, The Holme,…
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Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
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Red Squirrels
Red squirrels (Sciurus vulgare) are hard to find — they are almost extinct in England. They survive on Anglesey, North Wales and in parts of the Highlands and islands of Scotland, where isolation has saved them from the scourge of squirrel pox, carried by the successful grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) that raids our bird feeders but it’s not as simple as that. Last week we visited some in…
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Black Grouse -- a last look?
When we first moved to Wales, someone told me that there were still black grouse on the Gorn Hill, East of Llanidloes — I have never seen one there. We have been to the Cairn Gorm mountains in Scotland to find them. The females are grey, often called greyhens and keep themselves tucked away, camouflaged and out of sight in the rough. The blackcocks have no such inhibitions during the mating…
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Redstarts in Mid-Wales
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Good News! Pied Flycatchers have Returned!
Spotted in Gwernavon woods, Llawr-y-glyn, Powys yesterday (13.04.2023) the first pied flycatcher to make it back from Africa through the gales and rain — the day before that it snowed and hailed here. The male bird looked in very good condition, plump and lively — probably fluffed up trying to keep warm. No sign of last years swallows returning yet but some have been seen in Y Fan, just over the…
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Seals on the Balance of Nature.
Seals are doing well around the United Kingdom since we stopped persecuting them, like these common seals seen earlier this year on a beach in Cornwall near to my daughter’s home. The common or harbour seals are smaller than the grey seals and, I think, look cuddlier although don’t get too close! Their faces are concave, more dog shaped than the grey seal below. Grey seals are larger, often…
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Aqua-aerobics at the public baths.
Aqua-robats bob and splutter, in the burghal pond. Thirty ageing ladies and one man syncopate to the music of which they were fond. Sharing a chlorinated bath, they bounce buoyed by Archimedes, and the staff. But ones at the back refuse to listen. diving in to chatter which, by the way, they did when they were twelve. And teachers-pet is still in…
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Follow the Music Man
in time to the throb of African rhythm. He’s tall and lean, stylishly frayed, fist bumping the man in the sleeping bag propped by the old cinema and the girl cross legged on the pavement – but on he swerves, swinging – things to do – people to see. He looks ahead but sees all around. The large plastic bag, for-life, slung over his shoulder matches his trainers. The rest of him is swathed in…
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Llanidloes -- a microcosm of British History!
It’s satisfying to read history that you can fit into your own known world, that talks about the way national and international events affected people living in your own area, that mentions the streets and buildings that figure in your own town! It brings the history to life and should definitely be used in local schools where it will render history more relevant to students. But you don’t have…
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Not there yet!
Yesterday we went looking for the Spring. Finding only catkins blowing in the breeze which was ominously easterly. Deep breath — one sneeze. No yellow stars twinkling in the hedgerow — ranunculi, the true harbinger of Spring — keeping their heads down. We’re not there yet! We awake to 8 inches of snow. The fine stuff that clings to the trees who flex their sinews as you pass to dump it on…
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Hawkeye!
It has been snowing hard all day but yesterday I had lunch with my friends. All three who live here, in the country (rather than the town) agreed that they were starting to have qualms about their bird feeders. Seems we have all created sparrowhawk feeders. These small, fast predators whizz around the side of the house and bowl over their victims in a whirl of what seem pointed wings — an arial…
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St David -- Patron Saint of Wales
1st of March — 1st day of meteorological spring — St David’s day is cause for celebration in Staylittle, Mid-Wales. A time to meet old friends — here’s Audrey and Gareth. We were entertained by famous local magician/retired dentist Gareth Jenkins. Sobering to find how apparently easily ones senses can deceive one — except it probably isn’t easy! Thank you Gareth. We sported our daffs. The real…
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Laughing Shark Yard!
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Winter Visitors
Now is the time to see the ducks and geese overwintering in Norfolk and Lincolnshire on the marshes of the Wash, escaping the frozen winters of their northern breeding grounds Flocks of wigeon with their strange whistling call. Here they are grazing on Frampton Marsh. Later we see them in great rafts, floating out at sea — didn’t know they did that. Further out, beyond the sea wall (not a wall…
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Not Political -- But...
Things are not necessarily the way the BBC leads us to expect — Today I awoke to radio warnings of major disruption — most generalised and widespread strikes for many years. Looking for excitement I set off with my camera to record this mass political action in an East Midlands post-industrial town. Firefighters, health workers, railway workers and teachers — all out? Fire Station — Fire engines…
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The Life Recycled!
You know that family dynamics have reached a transitional point when your entire stock of chocolate biscuits appear in the re-cycling bin. They do this spontaneously — apparently of their own volition. You call your daughter who is staying for the week-end to witness the mystery. You both stare into the gaping mouth of the green food-recycling bin where pale, slightly crackly milk chocolate…
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