'Tes unsaisonable warrm...
Mar. 26th, 2012 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnThis morning, I got uncomfortably warm ambling along with the dogs, and when I got back to the car park, I found that an adder was just setting off from the car park, through the foot-gate up the hill. I waited for him to pass, wondering which was his car.
The hedgerows are full of rather surprised looking starry white blackthorn flowers, no doubt wondering why it's not raining, and the daffodils are starting to look tired already. I have bluebells in flower in my garden. March always used to be a dismal damp and blowy month! What happened?
This evening I had to wait until it was cool before I took the lurcher lads down to a field to race about. The sky was completely cloudless blue, if a little hazy, and once the lurchers had hurtled down the field, I could hear the rabbits underground thumping crossly to each other in complaint. Brythen seems to be just as clueless as Az about actually catching rabbits, which I guess probably helps explain why he was found straying: no good as a working dog... Fortunately I do not particularly want to end my walks with a handful of sad dead rabbits, so that's fine by me. We came back along the lane by the light of a very slender and elegant moon.
The hedgerows are full of rather surprised looking starry white blackthorn flowers, no doubt wondering why it's not raining, and the daffodils are starting to look tired already. I have bluebells in flower in my garden. March always used to be a dismal damp and blowy month! What happened?
This evening I had to wait until it was cool before I took the lurcher lads down to a field to race about. The sky was completely cloudless blue, if a little hazy, and once the lurchers had hurtled down the field, I could hear the rabbits underground thumping crossly to each other in complaint. Brythen seems to be just as clueless as Az about actually catching rabbits, which I guess probably helps explain why he was found straying: no good as a working dog... Fortunately I do not particularly want to end my walks with a handful of sad dead rabbits, so that's fine by me. We came back along the lane by the light of a very slender and elegant moon.
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Date: 2012-03-26 08:10 pm (UTC)'Tes.
I was just wondering this morning whether it was still safe to walk across the heath... But no, it looks like the adder season is upon us, a month early.
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Date: 2012-03-27 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-28 09:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-26 09:13 pm (UTC)I've never seen an adder. I'd conclude that some ancient saint did a Patrick and banished them from our island, except that The Internet reveals that they exist here.
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Date: 2012-03-27 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-27 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-27 10:08 pm (UTC)Offer of room to stop over in is still open if you want it, just let me know.
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Date: 2012-03-28 01:50 am (UTC)We'd love to take you up on that offer! it would be a lovely change from a steady diet of hostels. I will let you know when we've got dates hammered out so I can give you something more definitive than "oh, you know, round about the 3rd week or so..." :D
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Date: 2012-03-28 07:43 am (UTC)I work from home in an area where the main measure of time is 'dreckly' - so, you know, whenever is probably good. :-p
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Date: 2012-03-28 06:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-28 07:13 pm (UTC)I hung about (keeping the hounds well back) until he had wandered off into a thicket, just in case other walkers might be inclined to molest him.
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Date: 2012-03-28 08:08 pm (UTC)