tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-187933412024-03-13T14:20:40.644+00:00a dog's life in the Tamar valley, Cornwall, PL17Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027658858923261262noreply@blogger.comBlogger2154125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18793341.post-82999050262709025042021-03-01T13:23:00.001+00:002021-03-01T13:24:21.618+00:00Harriet, lurcher of this parish, died today<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yOirkF-KCTk/YDzp2BmsnoI/AAAAAAAAnYA/y_3kS7QlE2spAYcGoA99-SmacJZqgSlpgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/617_8120_spot_harriet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1537" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yOirkF-KCTk/YDzp2BmsnoI/AAAAAAAAnYA/y_3kS7QlE2spAYcGoA99-SmacJZqgSlpgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/617_8120_spot_harriet.jpg" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7YkAIVTJmOI/YDzq8rXcxtI/AAAAAAAAnYI/KzlybhWEvH81pWyOcafE1m0TPOkl4aGzwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/harriet_DSC_7547.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1433" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7YkAIVTJmOI/YDzq8rXcxtI/AAAAAAAAnYI/KzlybhWEvH81pWyOcafE1m0TPOkl4aGzwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/harriet_DSC_7547.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> </div>And so, finally, after 21 years and 7 months of lurcher ownership, things finally came to an end. Harriet was put to sleep peacefully today, the first day of Spring 1/03/2021 on the same blanket she was born on. I am very proud to have been the owner of such lovely good natured dogs. They had a good life, and I hope this blog remains as a testimony to a good dogs lives well lived.<br /><p></p>Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027658858923261262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18793341.post-81918027482234641362019-06-01T11:01:00.003+01:002019-06-01T11:01:32.786+01:00Sadly Spot passed away today, after a short illness. He was one week away from his 14th birthday. He was much loved and had a long and happy life, much of which is recorded in these many pages. He was full of life until the very end. He will be sorely missed.<br />
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Goodbye, old chap. See you soon.Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027658858923261262noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18793341.post-54299750820049432012017-06-07T12:47:00.002+01:002017-06-07T12:47:35.392+01:00Not bad for 84<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At last summer has arrived with some warm sunshine. The meadows are full of wild flowers. This is a heath fritillary (female) feeding on cornish bladderseed, two rarities in one.<br />
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Swallows roosting in our porch. They have had one unsuccessful attempt to breed already. Something (probably local sparrows) raided the nest and chucked the eggs out. They will probably try again.Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027658858923261262noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18793341.post-18364925650420562642016-06-05T16:49:00.001+01:002016-06-05T16:49:22.674+01:00may is out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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you can start casting clouts, the May is out. (There is some dispute about the origin of this old saying, but I like to think it refers to the hawthorn coming into flower, whatever the time of year, and it is a bit late this year). So out with my clouts.Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027658858923261262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18793341.post-84616520440163338932016-06-05T16:39:00.002+01:002016-06-05T16:41:18.393+01:00at last, a green hairstreak butterfly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been looking for this little green butterfly (the green hairstreak) for the last five years, and at last today in Greenscombe woods, I spotted this one and was able to photograph it. Hooray! And there were a lot of heath fritillaries about<br />
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and lots of heath spotted, marsh and lesser butterfly orchids, and a crab spider waiting for an unsuspecting pollinator.Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027658858923261262noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18793341.post-65363339168133822282016-05-30T11:12:00.003+01:002016-05-30T11:13:12.055+01:00froghopper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the black and red frog hopper looks like a mis-shapened ladybird but is one of the spittle bug family (see link <a href="http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/homoptera/Cercopidae/Cercopis_vulnerata.html" target="_blank">British bugs</a> ). They are supposed to be common but thgis is the first red and black one we have seen.Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027658858923261262noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18793341.post-6919081395696581412016-05-30T11:04:00.000+01:002016-05-30T11:04:17.904+01:00out for a stroll<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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beautiful Spring, Pempwell, Cornwall 2016</div>
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just one more for old times sake, the amazing sight of an albino (or leucistic) sparrow in the garden of Spot's new(ish) abodeSpothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027658858923261262noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18793341.post-63034961243688142932015-03-21T17:18:00.002+00:002015-03-21T17:18:39.134+00:00farewell to Orchard House<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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well, after 22 years, and with some sadness, we have left Orchard House. One Harriet has been replaced by another, and the garden is now full of laughter and chatter rather than random barking. Meg (who appears in Spot's blog from time to time) is very happy to be in Spot's house but can't work out where he has gone. In fact we have moved just across the road to Farrier's Lodge, our lovely new home, so every dog is confused. With the move away from Orchard House, Spot (who will be 10 in June) and I feel it is time to bring this blog to a close. It has been on line now for more than 9 years, and we have covered the ebb and flow of the seasons and of canine lives with great affection for this wonderful place in which we live. Once again the tide of yellow is upon us with daffodils, celandines and primroses smiling in the sun, the harbingers of Spring, and for once I shall leave their image to your imaginations.<br />
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Spot, and his secretary.Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027658858923261262noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18793341.post-34224441197658271492015-03-01T22:59:00.002+00:002015-03-01T23:03:56.234+00:00Spring snowdrops<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Spring is coming! Interesting complex snowdrop near Latchley today.</div>
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colourful scenes on Bodmin moor today</div>
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we seem to have acquired our own buzzard, the beech tree gives him/her/it a magnificent view across the field of rabbits.Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027658858923261262noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18793341.post-67044077802643593162015-02-01T22:10:00.002+00:002015-02-01T22:10:26.992+00:00It runs in the family<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Out snigging today, and, below, the view of the Tamar valley from Greenscombe, with a snowy Dartmoor in the distance<br />
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It was the coldest night of the year, with a hard frost and a contemplative horse. Nevertheless, much to my surprise there were bumblebees about on the mahonia, and viburnum, both of which lent a sweet scent to the crisp cold air.Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027658858923261262noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18793341.post-28310458190824207532014-12-27T18:31:00.002+00:002014-12-27T18:31:22.975+00:00new moon time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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New moon at Christmas. And a happy New Year from Spot. </div>
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