CUCKOO A seventy-five year old friend was telling Dirty Nails about the sound of cuckoo’s in her youth. She grew up in Surrey and back-along the summer visiting migrant was considered nothing special – in fact, quite the reverse. In those days the cuckoo was a common bird, its arrival to these shores every April [...]
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DIRTY NAILS BLOG by Joe Hashman CUCKOO
Monday, May 31st, 20101 November 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman DRIVING TO SWINDON
Sunday, November 1st, 2009After the second successive night of blustery gales, first thing this morning I took the high roads from North Dorset cross-country to windy Swindon. In conditions made treacherous fallen leaves and sheets of driving rain, the route was mercifully light on traffic. Rain entered through even a tiny crack in the wound-down window to assault [...]
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