Bits and pieces

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

Bits and pieces by Lois

Lyme disease… be on guard

Last Friday and Saturday was Worldwide Lyme Disease protest days : http://worldwide-lyme-protest.org.uk/ Lyme disease is a dreadful, dreadful debilitating disease which affects thousands of people, and many more run the risk of getting it because of the lack of publicity and awareness surrounding it. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that is spread to humans by infected ticks. Ticks are nasty tiny creatures, tiny blood sucking creatures […]

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Walking out one pleasant evening

  We’ve had a few pleasant days, then we had fine days but a very cold wind, and now we have grey skies, cold wind and a spatter of rain… I just want to have some pleasant evenings so we can walk out and stroll along the beach to where the River Exe meets the sea and then wander along its banks.

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Jackdaw

Jackdaws are small black crows with a silvery mantle from their head down over their shoulders, and are very common round here. They are so characterful and sociable and they always look so busy as they check out what’s going on. I think they are wonderful birds, and am always drawn to watch them when they are in […]

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