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I read that someone wants the closeup camera of the Lock of the Lowe’s Squirrel and Pine Martin back. The camera was changed over, as focus was really out of a night. I sent a new camera and lens up to the centre last week. They Hope to have it working this week some time.

On Sunday the Badgers were a bit jumpy, our new holiday guests were using the hide, they possibly may have spooked them. You can always tell if the hide is being used, by the Fox not being about. You would think by the way that the urban Fox ignore humans, our Fox would be use to them by now.

Those Rabbits are big. I should think that they are getting a bit of the Badger feed. If they get much bigger they may be t slow to get out of the way of the Fox or Badgers, to both they would make a good feast.

Sue should have been at Minehead for the past two evenings. We went there last night for fish and chips. Didn’t stay to long as it wasn’t to warm, even with a jumper on. Tonight was a different story, it was so warm that we didn’t need jumpers, and for a change we had a Chinese take away. Bit messy on the beach, but well worth it. It did start to blow up a bit. Time to get back to Denbury.

Our boiler stopped working last night. I have been smelling oil around the tank area fr a while. On checking the tank the bottom had started to rust away. It looked more like a sieve than a tank. I knew that I would have to change the tank sometime soon, and by luck when I went to our farm suppliers last Saturday, they had one on one side. Whats this I asked one of the assistants. It a double tank but the outside tank has a split in it, the inside tank is good but we cant get the outside one renewed, I was told. I jumped in quick, how much do you want for it I asked. I thought that I may have been told two or three hundred pounds. Fifty pounds he said. That fifty pound was out of my pocket and into his hands so quick that I didn’t realise that I had given it to him. What a stroke of luck, it was meant to be. I never for one moment thought that I would have needed it as soon as I did.

I was up very early this morning, to go and collect the new oil tank. The old metal one was well covered in bramble, it took one of my Lads and myself a good hour to clear the bramble, to be able to get the old tank out. We needed to get a rope around the tank, to pull it out of its place. The only way we were going to move it was to drag it out with my car, with my Lad driving. Instead of just pulling it out, it started to tip forward, it didn’t help as it was a steepish incline, and then it suddenly started to roll, how this big heavy metal cube could roll as quick as it did I will never know. It must have weighed three hundred weight, and there it was bouncing and rolling into the direction of my car. The car was attached to it by the rope, so there was no way that my Lad could get away from the tank. I screamed out to him to pull it as fast as he could, in the hope that once off of the incline it would stop rolling. Fortunately it did and the car and tank came to a standstill, a good hundred yards from where it started.

Now to the point of the story, when we looked behind the place where the tank was, we found what looks like a new Badger sett, that our Badgers have started. It could be an extension of the main sett, but I am not to sure, as there is a large rock area in between the main sett and the new excavations. We have built two stables into the rocks, that is how large and rocky it is. It is also a good twelve metres from the nearest hole of the main sett. The main sett, if it is an extension would now be a good fifty metres plus. The new sett is just a few feet from the farm house.

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