Flowers
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♥Mar. 17th, 2014 // 02:50 pm♥
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There are lots of pretty primroses in the woods (and a few around our field) at the moment:
There's also a big patch of wood anemones in one corner of the woods, which (I learn from Country Life) means that the Forestry Commission must never have bothered to do anything there: they spread incredibly slowly, and are usually only found in ancient woodland. Very pretty little flowers, though!
Sadly, I don't have the picture that I really wanted to take today. We were moving the electric fence this morning and have now just got into the edge of the patch of long grass (where it was too steep for the previous owners to use their ride-on mower). It's been a rich mine of abandoned dog toys, and today I found a stuffed bunny. I threw it out for Jodie, but she wasn't much interested. When the boys came outside, though, GB immediately picked it up and carried it off across the field. I was laughing too much to get my phone out in time to take a picture, but it does shed new light on the way that the toys move around the field: we'd always assumed that it was Jodie doing it, but maybe not.... |
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Vinyl
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♥Mar. 17th, 2014 // 04:59 pm♥
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So, when my parents came down to visit they brought the last of my stuff that's lurking in their house, my vinyl.
I've spent the afternoon going through it, looking at the prices on musicstack.com, and there are probably about twenty 7"'s worth about a fiver, and about 20 12"'s worth over a fiver, depending on condition. There are a handful of things in there worth £20 or more.
(I have a complete run of Queen LPs, although my copies of Queen and Queen II are the Fame editions. It's surprising how much the value of them varies, and it's by no means a straight correlation with age.)
I'm not sure that I can be bothered to sell them myself, though, even before you get onto the 'how the hell do you ship a 12"' issue (I have vague memories of pizza boxes being good). Does anyone have any suggestions for somewhere that would just take the lot and give me a fair-price-with-a-stated-cut for them?
(The box also, Mother mentioned in passing, contains an envelope with my school reports in it. That may be entertaining, when I get around to it....) |
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Close encounters....
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♥Mar. 17th, 2014 // 08:55 pm♥
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I just went to check the boys, and give Jo her usual run around the field.
Just as we got back to the gate, she went tearing off into the corner of the field. "Ah, bunny," I thought. Then a white blur came towards me. "Ah, stupid bunny," I thought, until the badger used me as a convenient point to ricochet off and then dart under the gate....
It didn't quite knock me off my feet, but my boots and trousers are now noticeably pungent!
(Fortunately, Jodie listened when I told her not to go under the gate after it! Really don't want her to corner a badger....) |
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