Sometimes I cave in …
Egg & Cheese McMuffin meal with latte for breakfast β
7/7 12:30am - First listen to I Inside the Old Year Dying π΅
π Hard act to swallow: gull caught on film eating squirrel whole
It is a jaw-dropping scene worthy of a Hitchcock film
Wow!
View through our letterbox on returning home after an evening doing a quiz in our local pub π
(photo taken by my daughter)
First over: Stuart Broad removes David Warner - for the 16th time in Tests - for 4 π
π Ashes: Day one, third Test, Headingley
This is the toad who lives in my greenhouse πΈ
Seems like a very strange (sometimes very hot) place for a toad to want to live in but itβs been there for well over three months now. I have to be very careful when hoeing between the plants because itβs often completely buried in a well-camouflaged burrow which occasionally moves location.
Iβve been trying to get a better photograph but itβs fairly timid and makes a dash for cover whenever it notices me π
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Book π and Butty Bach πΊ in Hay
Gateway
Location check in πΊ β one night at The Old Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye. Superb Wye Valley Smokery kippers served for breakfast π
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Hay-on-Wye π
Location check in πΊ β Blue Boar, Hay-on-Wye for a pint of Timothy Taylorβs Landlord, one of my favourite beers πΊ
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South Wales Fire Service helicopter carrying water has been repeatedly flying back and forth over our house all day today (still going now at 7pm and I think I first saw it about 8am).
According to Natural Resources Wales there’s a wildfire in Gethin Forest between Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, just over the side of the valley from us π₯π
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Very dramatic final day in the 2nd Ashes Test π
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