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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

A few photos of places in Nottingham city.

The Oldest Pub In England. Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem 1189AD.

Another view of Ye olde Trip Pub. It’s cellars are built into the sandstone cliffs at the back.

The rather ‘Chunky’ Robin Hood statue that Julia commented about.

Nottingham Castle entrance.

Sandstone caves. from Judy

As there was little to write about I was not going to do a Diary entry tonight. Then at about 4.50pm just before I was to go to feed the Badgers there was a light knock at the Farm House door. On opening the door in ran a panicking rat type dog with a large man in a position to follow it. Tass thought it was great and but for me shouting at her the rat type dog could well have been shaken as Dogs do when they catch rats, leaving it dead. This part was finished as quickly as it started with the dog running towards the man who was able to scoop it up before Tass had.

I screamed as loud as I could at the man what the **** do you think you are doing. Your Sheep have ran up the drive he replied and I am knocking to let you know. I knew that it was not the Sheep that had run up the drive, I knew that they were in the Field, it could only have been Thornton who had been laying in the Farm House Porch only a short time before. He had obviously been chased by the rat type dog who had not been on a lead on the footpath that goes through the Farm. The man had put the rat type dog on the ground, to I can only assume to belatedly put a lead on the dog, unfortunately he got loose and also ran down the drive with the man in hot pursuit being followed by my ranting and raving about the dog not being on a lead, and that if I had got to my gun before he had put a lead on the dog I would shoot it for Sheep worrying. That would have been a bit difficult as I don’t own a gun. The speed that the man was chasing after the dog he may well have believed it.

After I had fed the Badgers I came in to do the Photo Page. After 10 minutes or so I realised that I had not seen Thornton and that I needed to make sure that he was alright. I looked all around the places where Thornton would hang out and found no sign of him. I checked the stream to make sure that he had not been chased into it. I had run out of all of the places where he may have gone, but there was still no sign of him. I could only think that Thornton had been in front of the man and the rat type dog and had kept on running believing he was being chased either in the direction of the footpath or down the Drive. What ever I needed to go down the Drive. As the new electric gates would have stopped Thornton from getting out of the Farm, if he wasn’t there I would need to go to the end of the footpath that went through Fields, that were getting on for a mile away.

I passed through the electric gates at the end of the Drive that close automatically unless the remote control is pushed on exiting. I fumbled in the dark for the remote that I had put back into its place to close the gates in case Thornton was following behind me, when suddenly his head appeared behind the closed gate in our Field opposite the end of our drive. As I got out of the car Thornton started to call out to me, being behind the closed gate was making him panic so I needed to hold him in case he decided to run. There was only one action I could take and that was to put him in the back of the car to get him back down the Drive to the farm where he knows. I haven’t looked to see what state the back of the car is in. If I hadn’t fumbled for the electric gate remote control I would not have seen Thornton. I would never had guessed that he would have been in that Field behind a closed gate. The man or someone must have put him there. If I had not found him, even if he knew the Drive led to the Farm, he could not have got through the gate and he may well have wandered off along the lanes to be lost or run over.

At both ends of the footpath that passes through Denbury, signs are displayed telling that dogs should be on leads and under control. Idiots who ignore these notices cause injuries to Farm and Wild Animals. We had two of our Sheep killed by a dog a couple of years back. Unfortunately people and their dogs are rarely caught. Farmer do have a right to shoot dogs that worry animals.

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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

THE FIRST THREE ARE FROM THE NEWSPAPER STORY AS BELOW, SENT IN BY Marie/NJ

Two more photographs of the icicles sent in by Elaine.

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

There are only a couple of more days of photographs left.

FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM CLUMBER PARK. LYNNE.

This is what remains of the village of Hallsands Devon, the rest fell into the sea.

Pennywell Farms two Female Reindeer went home yesterday. I have got to admit that I was pleased to see them go for they have been hard work. Both wanted to be the boss from when they first arrived. That wasn’t such an issue until feeding time when they would eat all the feed between them leaving our Females not getting any food, I finished up standing with the Reindeer for about twenty minutes at both the morning and evening feeds to make sure that all of the Reindeer had their fair share. If you noticed the darker Pennywell Female on the webcams she was a bully and for ever chasing any females that got to close to her. I should think that she went back ti Pennywell a bit lighter than when she arrive.

What a performance it was trying to catch them yesterday to load them into the vehicle for their return journey. One we managed to catch within a very short time with just three people. The other one, the dark one again was a pig. It was just as well that I don’t own a gun or she would have finished up as venison on a plate. We chased around for that animal for well over an hour. From one end of the Reindeer paddock to the other would be getting on for a couple of hundred metres. Believe you me it felt like it after running up and down it a few times. It didn’t help as our Lads were on a job elsewhere. Even when one arrived back it didn’t help a lot. He manages to slip over when making a dive at it. Our other Lad with a Friend arrived and helped. We got a little nearer to catching it with six of us and the Reindeer a little out of breath as we were, but no way was we going to catch he. In the end we needed to get a long length of sheep netting stretching most of the way across the width of the field, walking towards her to make any exit small. We lost her once when she ran between a small gap. On the next attempt we cornered her with the net and were able to grab hold of her. It wont be worth the trouble if she is not in Calf.

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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

A few more of my cousins photos. One for Jordan. Lovely owl family and snow in her garden a few years ago. sue.

Also sending in a pic of the narrow boat I used to be the proud owner of – taken in a snowstorm -moored up near Northampton on the Grand Union Canal. Jill xxx

One of 4 photographs of the Reindeer taken by Vicky whilst on Holiday. I am going to use one of them on my website.

They were our antique gate that were on the webcam, earlier today. I didn’t realise that it was live I thought that it was on our private view. The gates are all that we expected of them and more. Finally after 15 years our driveway is private. There are a couple of ways to open them. We are able to use a remote button that when pushed from our vehicles opens automatically or the is a keypad option from either side of the gates. We are able to give people who use the keypads their own numbers. The gates open very quickly, a lot quicker than we expected. We have also installed wires under the driveway that when a vehicle crosses the wires the gates will open automatically to exit the Farm. We have not had time to completely finish that option yet. We have also got to paint the gates and posts, they will then look very good.

In last night Diary I mentioned the lack of seeing any Deer in the Valley. I believe that now it could be because the Sheep are using the Valley of a night time. We have had a Ram running with the Sheep for the past weeks, so we hope to have a few Lambs in the Spring. We will over next week house the Sheep in the barn for the Winter. The Ram went back to its owners today. He was very easy to catch. Unlike the Pennywell Reindeer that also went home this afternoon. The horse box that was seen on the webcam was Pennywell coming for them. What a performance that was. I will tell you about it tomorrow.

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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

After reading about Penny Chicagox3’s sighting of sandhill cranes I thought I would send in a pic of the Common Cranes that visited Dungeness when I was there back in August.

Also sending in a pic of the narrow boat I used to be the proud owner of – taken in a snowstorm -moored up near Northampton on the Grand Union Canal.

Third pic is of a Rosy Underwing moth – a very rare visitor here – and one that I was credited on the mothsofdungeness website as finding with two of the male wardens. Jill xx.

The inside of Bradford Town Hall, it is very beautiful. Elsie.

How would you like this little pony for Arnie Elsie.

I cant believe that there have been so few Deer in the Valley this year especially after having the back end of the Rutting season last year. I can only put it down to the electric fencing that was used for the Cattle that we allowed our contractor have at the far end of the Valley. The area beyond the far left hand side. I cant imagine that no Deer use the Woodland that we have just acquired. As soon as I get time I will try to fix an ordinary camera up with an infra red beam so that if any thing breaks the beam it will take a photograph. Trouble is that we are so busy at the moment I am having trouble finding any spare time.

Hopefully next year when the ground dries out I will see if there are any areas in the wood that have a good size clearing to be able to put a small Lake in. There is only one are that the stream runs through that we will be able to put a small Lake, It is close to the Valley and will encourage more Wildlife including deer to the Valley. It is also very boggy that is a good sign that there are underground springs to fill the Lake with water. It would be preferable to use springs to fill a Lake or Pond rather than a stream, as stream fed Lakes and Pond tend to fill with sediments and need for the sediment to be taken out, some times as much as the soil that was taken out to make Lake. The Lake will also help drain the boggy area in the wood.

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

TAKEN IN CLUMBER PARK. LYNNE

Stormy sea at Blackpool. Elsie.

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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

Thought you might like to have a look at these. Glad we don’t get them like that here. lol. Elaine.

This incredible spectacle takes place in Versoix a town close top Geneva City in Switzerland. The water in the background is the Leman Lake. Elaine.

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

SWANS ON THE LAKE IN CLUMBER PARK. LYNNE.

Going by the way that Padfoot is acting his Rutting season has ended. There is only one of Pennywell Farms Females that has time to return and that is on Monday. None of the other have been seen to return so with a bit of luck we may have Reindeer Calves next year.

The Pennywell Reindeer are due to go back home next Friday. We do hope that they are also in Calf/

We had the Reindeer Harness that we ordered from Sweden delivered on Friday. The neck collar does look as if it may be uncomfortable, but it is the traditional harness that is used both in Sweden and Finland. If I remember I will put a photograph of it on the Photo Page.

Elsie emailed me this morning to let me know that she had seen the same type of bread that I wrote about last night. Elsie saw it at 28p.
I cant let this go and I spoke to our Local Tesco Store Manager about it. He thought that the prices were the same nationwide. Elsie thinks differently as she has noticed the difference in prices from the north and south when she has been on Holiday. There can never be a justification for large price variation. Pensioners, low paid and those on benefits all experience hardship where ever they live.

I have one to beat the 33.33% increase in the value bread. We put peanut butter on on loaf and Tesco value marmalade on the other. Just under two weeks ago the marmalade cost 28p today it cost me 49p over a 100% increase. That is an absolute disgrace and shows the Tesco are directing the increases on those that are already buying the cheapest products and do not have a choice.

I have on purchased two value items from Tesco, both to feed the Badgers so the is a very good chance that more of their value products have had exorbitant price increases hitting the pockets of those people who should be helped.

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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

A few photos taken at the Robin Hood Show , Newark. Nottinghamshire in October.

A Hobby.

A Sheep.

The Knight Of Arkley getting ready for a joust.

Falconer with his bird.

Robin Hood takes a bow. From Judy.

Sorry, today’s diary is a moan. You may agree with it or not. But I am still going to moan. I quite sure that most of you will agree. If you do I have put the contact details at the bottom to show how you feel.

As I have probably told you, because Tesco are our nearest Supermarket we use them for the majority of our shopping. We really dont have the time to gop further. We purchase the Tesco value bread to feed to the Badger. The reason for that choice is that at the Tesco Taunton store you could nearly give a 100% guarantee that it would be partly stale. Ideal for us when we spread the peanut butter onto it as it does not tear and breakup like fresh bread. The slices also do not stick together as fresh bread does when we tear it in to pieces. Reading it over it I am sounding like a bread expert.

The price of the Tesco value bread a year ago was from 26 to 28p a loaf. Last year the price of wheat doubled and more. That caused all bread to increase by about 27%, to about