Hello again
After a fairly quiet few weeks for the birds, things have livened up in our garden. Lots of young birds have appeared, including the tits - blue, great and coal of that ilk, plus chaffinches, dunnocks and sparrows. I'll have to go out and fill up the feeders again.
As well as the more common birds above, we have been lucky to see three fairly uncommon species recently. The spotted flycatchers have paid regular visits, darting about in search of their insect prey. Also, a lovely blue and buff male nuthatch has been to see us. You …
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Archives for August 2015
Alan’s Nature Notes from August
Yellingham Farm Diary – August
What happened to July – it flew so quickly that the deadline for the Parish Paper flew past me as well, so July and August are being reported together!
With the hay all done and dusted the main job for July was to wean the lambs off the ewes. By this time of the year the poor ewes are being lifted off their back feet as the lambs are so big, yet still suckling. It is always a very busy and noisy task. So with some 200 sheep in the barn, the job begins. We separate the ewes out first and then spilt out the ewe lambs from the ram lambs.
It is a …
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Churchmouse – September
Dear Chums,
It’s been a rather quiet month as you all seem to have been away on holiday. Parchina and I have been a bit lonely, no singing from the children, no weddings. We cheered up at the end of the month with two lovely Christenings of little Ashton and Alexander, that was great and we felt very happy when we heard all the lovely singing. So Parchina and I have been doing a lot of reading that is when we haven’t been out in the fields with our field mice friends helping them bring in the harvest straw. It’s so difficult having to run …
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They Dream of Home – Payhembury Roads
They Dream of Home is a promenade production which takes place at a number of village sites, thus requiring the audience to walk between scenes. I need to ask for people's co-operation in parking elsewhere as the sight of modern cars will undermine our attempt to transport people's imagination back to the early 1900s. Parked cars will make the scenes on the Green and at the Memorial impossible to stage. Also, if driving when the audience is transferring from the site of one scene to another, please tolerate a short wait whilst the audience …
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Unique WW1 Theatre Production
After taking a short summer break, the Tale Valley Community Theatre company will resume rehearsals this month for ‘They Dream of Home’. This unique performance will be staged at sites around Payhembury village on
Sat 9th and Sun 20th Sept
Starting at 7.00pm in the Parish Hall
An original play, written and directed by John Somers, it captures the excitement amongst the young men of the parish as war is declared and their progression through recruitment, intense battles and the awful consequences of warfare. Two of the characters are based on …
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Parish Paper – September 2015 Issue
To read or save the current issue please click 2015 09 Parish Paper …
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Alan’s Nature Notes from July
Hello again
In our front garden we've been treated to several visits by a mother green woodpecker, accompanied by a younger woody, presumably her son or daughter.They busily search for ants in the short grass. This must be a good place for ants, because the green woodies come every year at this time. I think they are possibly Britain's most exotic looking bird---very striking with their green,
red and yellow plumage. We have also got a pair of spotted flycatchers, which have been around for a month. We're lucky to have these birds, …
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Unique WW1 Theatre Production
Following Tale Valley Community Theatre’s recent and very successful ‘Here we are again - an evening of songs and poems from WW1’, the company will take a short summer break before resuming rehearsals for ‘They Dream of Home’.
This unique performance will be staged at a number of sites around Payhembury village on September 19th and 20th. An original play written and directed by John Somers, it captures the excitement amongst the young men of the parish at war’s declaration and the progression through recruitment, intense battles and the …
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Churchmouse – August
Hi friends, can’t stop for long to write to you this month, Parchina and I and a few friends have set up a gym club and we are practicing for a gym display in a few weeks time. We got this idea when we saw some gymnastics at Party in the Park and we heard others talking about a gym club. “Why don’t we have go?” Parchina and I thought, so we called together a few of our field mouse friends for a chat about it. “Great”, they said, “we could have great fun with this.”
Well the day we started it rained so we had to practice indoors. We very …
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