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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Monday, May 31st, 201022 June 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman GARDEN MOTHS COUNTDOWN
Monday, June 22nd, 200922 June 2009 GARDEN MOTHS COUNTDOWN Marion from Gillingham & Shaftesbury U3A came over this evening and set up a moth trap in the back garden. Don’t panic! It’s a harmless illuminated box which attracts night flying moths and retains them hidden amongst empty egg boxes. We then come along in the morning when most [...]
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