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Morning on the Tamar, and *no rain again*
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Baffled yet delighted by the continuing absence of rain, I launched an offensive on the garden. I have removed the figs that definitely won't ever ripen now, laid a stretch of hedge, and felled a number of hazel trees that had got overlooked because they are on an awkward bit of hedge to lay. Now I feel very tired and stiff.

After a stressful week (stupid work things), I woke up early and saw the valley full of mist and Dartmoor all golden on the horizon.

(Must get onto cutting the hedge, I couldn't find a spot where the view was uninterrupted by twigs. Also, note to self, it would have been worth taking the time to put one of the old lenses on rather than using the jack-of-all-trades autofocus lens. Still. )

Rosie seems to be settling in nicely. Her doggy manners out and about need some work. She does have a tendency to greet new dogs with cries of GRRRR, but generally gets on with them well once she has been introduced. One could not hope for a politer dog in the house. I'm leaving it till I have Helga Saab serviced next week before I make the final decision to adopt her, though. Dogs are expensive to run, and it would be daft to adopt another dog if Helga turns out to have some vastly expensive problem. *wears sensible hat, somewhat unconvincingly*

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I did some hedgelaying today! Now you can see out to the valley.

( Read more... )It was a beautiful day today, and the sky as the sun went down was all dotted with fluffy pink clouds, with that strange December light that is like an old oil painting.

Continuing the vaguely maritime theme, we went the other day to walk the dogs, and on the way, see the old Tamar barge 'Shamrock' being refloated. She has been out of the water for ages being refurbished, but she's done at last. . When we got there, they had already got her into the dock, and the tide coming in was floating her. They pulled her out into the river like this.

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In other news, I finally did a hedge survey today. I feel I have achieved, though it was not the most exciting of hedges. I think it had been chosen on the grounds that it was on the borders of a medieval hollow way, but it was quite a knocked-about adapted and revamped hollow way, and as the trees had grown tall around it, there weren't that many interesting things growing on the walls. Hey ho.

Current Mood: cheerful

No, not that sort of suggestive! I mean,I have found some plants whose presence or growth habit suggests something about the place that they are growing.

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Current Mood: thoughtful

I have definitely spent MORE than enough time this week, pretending to be a human being. MORE than enough. The illusion is, frankly, wearing thin.

I did a hedge survey course today. 2 injured out of 18 course attendees during a short walk along a muddy lane, 1 of them needing X-rays seems like some sort of record. Clumsy sods these human beings.

There was free food! Including excellent carrot cake! And I learned to identify hedge bedstraw, and how to tell a spindle tree when it's not fruiting. I feel I learned less about landscape archaeology, as mostly that section was strong on 'stuff we can't be sure about'. But that is a form of learning of a sort.

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