FEBRUARY WORK PARTY IN THE COMMUNITY ORCHARD A beautiful late morning down The Donkey Field. Jon, Kate, Tom and I cleared grass and weeds from the bases of all our trees, then hacked back vegetation from our line of Dorset varieties along the top path. Tom enjoyed rides in the wheelbarrow to and fro the compost [...]
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13 January 2010 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman SHOOTERS LANE IN SNOW, RARE DELIGHT
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010SHOOTERS LANE IN SNOW Half-way betwixt the High Street and Leyton Lane. All you can hear is the gurgle of water in some underground drain, tweets and scolds of blackbird and great tit, and the pitter-patter of falling snow: not flakes, but fresh-fall melts in mini avalanches from the tunnel of twigs and branches. Stand [...]
Read More »19 July 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman MORE MOUTHS TO FEED, FROGS
Sunday, July 19th, 200919 July 2009 MORE MOUTHS TO FEED More great tits have fledged. This time from the privet hedge down at the bottom of our allotments. I heard their excited racket this morning whilst tying-in fresh canes for next years early raspberries. Urgent staccato cheeping from the parents and their young. I swung round to catch [...]
Read More »16 July 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman GREAT TIT ON HOGWEED
Thursday, July 16th, 200916 July 2009 GREAT TIT ON HOGWEED It’s when you take time to just watch the world around you that you see the most, experience the thrill of wild creatures coming towards you rather than hurrying away in fright. Like just now… I was quietly crouched on the bottom path, slowly working along the bottom [...]
Read More »19 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman GREAT TIT FLEDGLING CRASH LANDS IN THE POTATOES, PLANTING OUT SOYA BEANS, OLD BROW LATEST
Tuesday, May 19th, 200919 May 2009 GREAT TIT FLEDGLING CRASH LANDS IN THE POTATOES 07.54: Adult great tit still regularly coming and going with food. Appears from and disappears to direction of the lime tree. Has just popped up to the nest box hole with food and tried to entice visible youngster out with it. After a few [...]
Read More »18 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman OPENING A NATURE AREA, MEMORIES, GREAT TITS PREPARING TO FLEDGE
Monday, May 18th, 200918 May 2009 OPENING A NATURE AREA Life has many surprises. A recent one for me was being invited to open a nature reserve area in the grounds of Stalbridge Primary School. The cutting of the ribbon took place this morning in breezy sunshine at nine o’clock. In front of the entire school and interested [...]
Read More »10 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman BREEDING SEASON
Sunday, May 10th, 200910 May 2009 BREEDING SEASON Got up late. It’s been a hectic week and last night, out visiting, I was dropping off whilst trying to hold a conversation in company. Fortunately it was with my folks so when mum said, ”Just close your eyes and listen, boy,” with relief I did (and was quite disorientated [...]
Read More »3 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman THINK AGAIN
Monday, May 4th, 20093 May 2009 THINK AGAIN It’s hard to ignore the news when there’s talk of a global pandemic. It’s also hard to know how to react. We’ve heard similar threats and scares before. I have no answers. All I do know, or rather sense quite strongly, is that as animals ourselves we do not live [...]
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