Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

If not an Ent then maybe an Enting

J.R.R. Tolkien brought Ents to us in The Lord of the Rings, a race of mighty beings similar to trees; Entwives are females, Entings are the young. Woods are mysterious places and sometimes you come across trees which seem to be watching, seem to have life in a non-tree like way and have paused to […]

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Shepherd… or is he from Middle Earth?

While in the Netherlands, we came across this shepherd and his flock and three dogs; two dogs were working, one was retired because he was deaf but still accompanied his master and sheep. The sheep were grazing in woodland, and not being fattened for meat but were cropping the undergrowth to keep the woodland in […]

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Maybugs make me jump!

One of the things about lovely summer evenings when I’m upstairs working with the window open, I meet all sorts of wild life. Pretty moths, creepy daddy-long-legs (although they don’t often fly as high as my window) naughty mosquitoes… it’s a regular zoo in the computer room. Every so often there is a bang on […]

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