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Pond weeding

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Did a bit of weeding of the pond on Sunday. Removed the floating island of waterlily and various other plants including a bramble. Trimmed back the shallow water plants which were creating their own rafts.

Had to do some wading to achieve this. Remembered to remove my mobile phone from my jeans before I started, but alas left my credit cards and notes in my pocket. Ah well, they dried out and the cards, of course, still work.

Replanted a bit of the waterlily back into the depths, so hopefully it will live and show as some nice flowers this year.

Now looking forward to the storm predicted to break during the night.

Norfolk

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The weekend saw Rosemary and I travel to Norwich to stay with Mike and Ann.  Took masses of photographs which will be up the the site soon.  Saturday saw us go to Winterton-on-sea for a walk along the beach and sand dunes in the bright clear sunny weather we are at last having.  The windmills on Scroby sand acting as a futeristic backdrop.

Sunday  was a broadland day at the South Walsham.  Here they have walks through the wood which is cut through by masses of dykes.  Lots of wildlife, very quiet and peaceful.  Took masses of photos of which one or two are reasonable.  There was the opportunity to take a boat trip on two broads, Soth Walsham Inner & Outer ones, which allowed me to take some close-ups of the bird life.  Rosemary will fill in the names of these.

Life Styles and Local Bird Life

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Rosemary’s nephew’s better-half Kirsty has just launched a new business Be Styled Interiors for interior design, home staging & de-cluttering in West Sussex & Surrey.  Should be very exciting her and we had a look at the new website for them.  I reckon we know quite a few homes which could benefit from the de-cluttering!
 
Local birds are behaving very oddly.  Over the past few weeks and for the first time in the 20 years we’ve lived here, the local blue tits are repeatedly tapping at windows and leaping up & down at them, too.  Is it the same single bird?  Not sure, not many distinguishing characteristics, but I don’t think we’ve had more than one window attacked at the same time.  Meanwhile, we spotted a buzzard in the field.  The farmer whose sheep are very kindly eating there said there were buzzards nesting in the wood near him, well blow me if a buzzard hasn’t come here and sat on the fence into the “coppice” part of the field.  However, he doesn’t appear to be that bright cos he was sitting very near a collared dove and there were bunnies running around beneath him.  Surely he shouldn’t have been that friendly with meals?