Posts Tagged ‘surrey’

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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17 October 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman CLACKETT LANE SERVICES

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

This is actually rather civilised as motorway service stations go. The air is calm, surfaces appealing and spacious. Around the periphery, dense woodland and large trees. Noise from the motorway is constant but buffered. Put it this way, I can hear the individual songs of birds, including robin and green woodpecker. Less than half the [...]

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