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a few projects around the home meant that I wasn’t able to visit the moss until the end of the Month which turned out to be quite beneficial as I was rewarded with some really nice sunny weather at the end of April. The nice weather had meant that the pools under some of the...
On the way to the airport the taxi driver said ‘Santander; is that not just an industrial port city?’. In some ways yes, he is correct and on arrival our first impressions weren’t much better. On attempting to find something to eat, we arrived at a café just outside the cathedral. The small menu card...
The signs of Spring are certainly arriving now. I am writing this just after mid March and this morning’s walk found the first batch of frog’s arriving in the main pond. Some of the smaller ponds hidden in the trees have yet to warm up enough to entice them out. Buds are starting to break...
Not a great deal has changed between January and February. It’s been a very mild winter this year and so far there has been very minimal snow. The swans that had appeared in January are still here and there has been a definite increase in birdsong as they start to prepare for the breeding season....
Tailend Moss is a lowland raised bog situated between Bathgate and Livingston. Every so often I feel I should have a year long project – most of which don’t get past day one. I have been visiting Tailend Moss now for many decades so I feel that I would like to record its development over...
Please allow me to let you in on a secret! The Namibian tourist authorities are missing a trick. It seems to me that if you are from the U.K. and yearn for a piece of Africa then you are most likely to go to South Africa. German and French tourists however, flock to Namibia. Considering...
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