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| Fish Food - with Wren, Liz, Mark and John. If you look closely you can see Kerry in the mirror taking the photograph! | |||
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| Liz and Mark - Liz has a mouth full of food, hence the funny face! | |||
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| On a swing on the updated Southsea sea front: John, Liz, Mark and Kerry | |||
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| Ready for Life Group 90th Birthday for Jenny | Egyptian Goose - a study | ||
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| Liz feeding the white goose | A moorhen chick - only a few days old | ||
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| Chick with its mother | |||
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| Also known as Purple Toothwort, this is a leafless, harmless, parasitic plant, mainly feeding off hosts such as Willow, Poplar, Hazel and Alder but also ferns, herbs and other trees. For most of the year it is invisible, but from April to June, glossy, mainly dark, violet-purple, sometimes paler, crocus-like flowers appear. The seeds are ejected explosively allowing the plant to spread up to eight metres. See: www.rhs.org.uk/plants/9848 | |||
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| Wonderful blossom | Deer in Sky Park fields | ||
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| The remains of the railway bridge on the old Petersfield to Midhurst railway. The Petersfield–Midhurst railway line was a 20-mile rural branch line, often called the Rother Valley line, that operated between 1860 and 1955, connecting Petersfield and Pulborough via Midhurst. Opened by the LSWR, it featured stations at Elsted and Rogate before closing for passengers and freight in February 1955. See: www.rothervalleyway.org.uk |
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| Bluebells - a couple of weeks earlier this year. | |||
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| Bluebells in the wood | |||
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| What is growing beneath the plastic sheeting? | |||
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| Interesting tree stump | Bluebell hunter! | ||
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| More Bluebells | |||
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| Horse Chestnut | |||
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| The South Downs | |||
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| Egret by the Mill Pond | |||
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| John and Liz; Sean and his daughter Rosie. John's sister Dorothy married Len whose children, Beryl and Stephen were adopted when Len divorced his first wife. Beryl was therefore Dorothy's step-daughter and remained faithfully in touch with Dorothy until she died. After Beryl's death Sean and his family have kept in touch with us - so we call them our Irish adoptive family! |
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| We had a new front door and a new door on the cupboard outside - this is the latter without a door! | From May: The completed front door - the glass in the new door was broken by the supplier, hence the delay! | ||
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| We had scones, jam and cream for Alice's birthday! | |||
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