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notes from the English countryside and beyond.

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Hamish M-L for his new website striking out as a life coach.  http://hamishmackaylewis.com/

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Tree surgeon Tom Smith taking down a beech this weekend that is too old and starting to split

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The work from our trip to Colombia in October for the rebranding of Colombia’s  Muzo Emerald Company is now out... see some of my pictures here: http://pierscalvert.com/index.php?category=muzo&i=0  or go to their new website to learn about the mining process www.muzo.co

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Cleaning the sandpit while test-driving Hugo’s new Heath-Robinson smoker with some butterflied lamb at Flanchford

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Gabriel

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Our Kawasaki mule went missing on Sunday night a week ago, to a pair of hoodied youths.  The good news is that we found it again yesterday in the woods near Buchan Park...

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Carnaval goings-on...

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At Evencio’s house meeting his mother in Recife

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Maracatu group preparations at the Carnaval in Recife, Brazil

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Like dog like master - Rob the vet and his dog

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Carnival preparations

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Rainy day London

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Happy Halloween... a burnt out car dumped in the woods behind the house last night.  Not a bad substitute for a pumpkin.  The price of scrap goes down next week so apparently lots of people are now dumping their cars because from next week people will have to pay to scrap them. Though this was likely joyriders.

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Stunning autumn colours in the High Beeches gardens in Sussex, England

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The taxi ride home.... a helicopter arrives for taking using around the Fura y Tena rock formations and then to take us back to Bogotá

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A guaquero stand in the Rio Minero, sifting through the spoil thrown out of the Muzo mines, to see if there are any stones that have been overlooked by the sifting processes there.