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Archives for October 2015
Committee Meeting October 2015
Alan’s Nature Notes from September
Hello everyone
I’m writing these notes on Wednesday, 9th September, as I’m off to Bulgaria on Friday, on a Naturetrek holiday! I’ll tell you all about it in the next notes. It should be good, because we’ll be visiting the Black Sea coast, which is on the North/South migration route for the birds returning south, after the breeding season.
The other day, we had a jersey tiger moth on our rockery. We get one or two of these colourful moths every year. Their upper wings are chocolate brown, with white diagonal stripes. When they open their …
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Yellingham Farm Diary – September
I always think that this month is a month of anticipation in the farming calendar for sheep at Yellingham. At the beginning of October we put our rams in with the ewes, but before we do so, there is quite a lot to do to make sure that lambing goes as smoothly as possible.
This means making sure that all our sheep are in tip top condition. For the ewes this involves checking them all thoroughly – feet, teeth and of course udders. Any ewe that is not up to the mark is culled – no matter how hard you try, you always get unforeseen problems, …
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Churchmouse – October
Hello friends
We hope that you enjoyed your summer holiday. What a shame it was so wet. Parchina and I don’t think we took our wellies off at all for a couple of weeks. We even had difficulty in gathering food, as there were not many services in church for us to gather up the crumbs, so we were very pleased when school returned and everyone was back to normal.
We were especially pleased when we had the celebration service at the beginning of September, there was sooo much cake and we were able to gather lots of food to store away. It was …
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