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December. (Munt) jac fox nipping at your heels.
January 01, 2023 - WARNING. THIS MONTH'S BLOG CONTAINS A PHOTO WHICH SOME MIGHT FIND UPSETTING. If this might be you, please skip this mont...
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November rain.
November 30, 2022 - November started with a week of rain and mild temperatures. Very mild temperatures, to be honest and quite a lot of rain...
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October - and it was all yellow (again).
October 31, 2022 - October.
Historically, THE month which starts with pretty-well all the leaves on the trees and ends with pretty-well no...
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(Baa-dee-ya. Dancin' in...) September.
October 01, 2022 - In a typically (and depressingly) British fashion I will begin this month's round-up blog post by writing that "BLIMEY!...
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August. The lucky ones.
September 01, 2022 - This will be a very short monthly report, perhaps the shortest of the entire year - if only because other than all the g...
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July to me?
August 01, 2022 - We're racing through the year now eh, grapple fans. Soon be Christmas and all that?
July then - the driest for 111...
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February. Up go the larks.
March 01, 2022 - February then.
The daffs are (of course) up all over the place and the first crocuses are pushing through the garden (s...
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Bat and buzzard.
December 31, 2021 - Just got home at 16:35 from another busy afternoon (which might explain the lack of blog posts recently), to see a BAT f...
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A,B,C and D
May 22, 2021 - Wow. What a dreadful May so far (weather-wise, at least). Our blue tit nest has pretty-well failed entirely (more on tha...
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Crewe Station.
May 16, 2021 - The regular reader(s?) of this blogging website may well know that, no, I'm not the urban or suburban foxes' biggest fan...
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A teaser for you.
May 01, 2021 - Right.
First things first.
In a few days (perhaps less than a week) I will post a photo (three in fact) that I took th...
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A few recent observations
April 28, 2021 - Afternoon all.
Just a few recent observations from me - as we're heading, helter-skelter into my favourite time of year...
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On manoeuvres.
April 20, 2021 - "Manoeuvres".
Good word, innit?
Good to use in a game of hangman too. Like "rhythm". Or "jazz".
Anyway... Where was I...
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Two. Again.
March 10, 2021 - Between two and three weeks ago I blogged that one of "our" hedgehogs from last year had awoken from its hibernation and...
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110 nights.
February 20, 2021 - Regular reader(s?) of this blog may know that we have a few (at least two) hedgehogs that frequent our (front and back)...
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Noisy blighters.
September 01, 2020 - We have noisy hedgehogs... noisier than most (and most are noisy after all).
But recently our hedgehogs... well.... the...
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Three hedgehogs again?
August 04, 2020 - This year I've been keen to establish how many hedgehogs are visiting our gardens again each night - especially as we've...
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Fight night(s).
May 10, 2020 - Maybe like me, you've just watched our wretched Prime Minister deliver his pre-recorded garbage to the nation and are no...
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Watering hole.
April 11, 2020 - Oh to be a fox right now.
Or even a hedgehog.
Or better still.... some kind of bird (we have a pair of house sparrows...
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Hedgehogs in our side passage.
March 31, 2020 - Just a quick post tonight with a spliced-together video of the hedgehogs in our side passage last night.
Stay safe.
TB...
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A message to joggers.
March 29, 2020 - I'm going to try and be as polite as I can with this wee post, but if I stray into screaming obscenities, then please fo...
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Two hedgehogs again
March 25, 2020 - A quick post tonight - we're all a bit frazzled after all, aren't we?
Regular readers of this blog might remember we ha...
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Look who's back...
March 17, 2020 - Going for a wee bowl of cat food that I've hidden behind one of our water butts, in a place where no cats (or foxes) can...
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Sad news.
November 02, 2019 - It is with a heavy heart that I should tell regular followers of this blog that our big male hedgehog who (I think) I fi...
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You tell me!
October 29, 2019 - Regular readers of this blog may know that we have two hedgehogs wandering through our side passage each night - a large...
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A quick SITREP
September 26, 2019 - Yes... I know... I've been AWOL for almost exactly a month now, but... well... I've been busy, eh?
Work has been silly.
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Bin a long time, bin a long time, bin a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lone-ly time.
June 17, 2019 - A few days ago after finding a dead hedgehog on the road 100 yards from our house and seeing what both my wife and I thi...
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Is that it? Is that the (sad) end? (WARNING NOT FOR THE EASILY UPSET).
June 14, 2019 - Regular reader(s?!) of this blog will know all about "our" hedgehog(s) - and the fact that I spend a lot of my time digg...
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Two hedgehogs now?
May 24, 2019 - I think this is a new development (but it may not be).
I think we now have TWO hedgehogs use our garden.
The video bel...
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A little more clarity? HedgehoG (sing.) & foxES (pl.)
May 07, 2019 - A little more clarity now, after my three trail cameras picked up footage of the larger mammals in our garden last night...
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Confused now...
May 06, 2019 - “There’s one antidote to gloom and despair that never fails: the wildlife that got us all going in the first place. It’s...
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He's gone.
May 01, 2019 - “There’s one antidote to gloom and despair that never fails: the wildlife that got us all going in the first place. It’s...
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A premature "so long" then?
April 17, 2019 - Yesterday I blogged that I thought that perhaps our single male hedgehog had (at last) made a break for it.
But last ni...
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Has our hedgehog finally taken the plunge?
April 16, 2019 - Regular reader(s) of this blog will know all about our single male hedgehog and my efforts to try and cajole him to leav...
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Hedgehog indecision
April 02, 2019 - Far from disappearing forever to the land of milk and honey, after discovering the tunnel I chiselled under our side doo...
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SUCCESS!
April 01, 2019 - A couple of days ago, I blogged about our randy, but frustrated (if hedgehogs get frustrated as such) male hedgehog.
I...
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Arseholes, penises and tunnels. (This should get some views!)
March 30, 2019 - A wee while ago I mentioned here that I've noticed a hedgehog return to our garden, despite our arsehole neighbours (at...
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Hot water
July 13, 2018 - The early summer heat continues... with its scarcity of water.
We've barely had any rain at all since mid May (1.2mm I...
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Spring update.
May 24, 2015 - It has not got unnoticed (by me if no-one else) that I’ve not blogged for some time, so I thought I’d write a quick upda...
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In the night garden (video)
July 19, 2013 - Just a quick blog post this morning to share some news.
Regular readers of my blog will know that I provided tunnels...
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For forty days it’ll rain nae mare....?
July 17, 2013 - Monday, (July 15 th) was the date on which we used to feast for St.Swithun – a Bishop of Winchester in the mid 800s.
On...
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"Are we nearrrly therrre yet"?
March 02, 2013 - I was going to blog about the pond that I have dug into our garden in the last week, or the swift box that I've finally...
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In the night garden
October 11, 2012 - I've always been a bit of a night owl. Not so much clubbing and partying all night (all that gubbins disappeared with my...
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Roundup - hogs, thrushes, jays....
October 10, 2012 - I'm pretty sure I heard a redwing "tseeping" overhead at night on the 26th September. If that is indeed the case, that w...
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Autumnal movements begin in earnest
October 02, 2012 - Everything seems to be on the move right now as Autumn heats up (or cools down I s'pose).
The jetstream is bouncing a...
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Shakespeare's "urchin".
September 28, 2012 - Shakespeare referred to our (modern day) hedgehog as an “ urchin ” and a “ hedge pig ” in a handful of his plays and our...
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