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, 20107 December 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman THE JOBBING GARDENER
Monday, December 7th, 2009THE JOBBING GARDENER Jobbing Gardeners spend their working days tending other peoples gardens. It’s a lovely job when the summer sun is shining. Think shorts and a T-shirt, the aroma of fresh cut grass and birdsong. But come this time of year it’s not quite so attractive. The weather can be awful, wet and freezing [...]
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