Posts Tagged ‘dorest’

DIRTY NAILS BLOG by Joe Hashman CUCKOO

Monday, May 31st, 2010

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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1 November 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman DRIVING TO SWINDON

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

After 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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