There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number six.
A photo of the cliffs in West Bay, Dorset that was taken last august. Vicky, Derby
A cheeky squirrel in my garden its hangs like this ages at a time. Our resident robin when we were clearing the garden up a few weeks ago it was hopping around within a few feet of us. Lynne.
An article about the much talked about squirrel.
Sending you these from Australia, hope you can open them. Their Magpies look different to our but have the same colouring. Elsie.
When we first came to Denbury the grass area that you can see behind the Sheep pen was a concrete yard for cattle that were housed in the barn in the Winter. We had Cattle in the barn and yard for the first few years of coming here.
When we demolished the cow yard we found an old local stone foundation all along the side of the stream. We also found an areas of old walling partially demolished to the left of the barn, very close to the stream. Over the years I had forgot about them. They had been completely obscured with the over grown bramble. As we were clearing the bramble today, we came across another part of the walling and large pieces of the local stone that I had never seen before. It must be part of the the foundation that we previously found. We have yet to find the large piece of walling that I can remember. The bramble is so thick that it is going to take a day or so to clear it all. As you must be well aware, bramble especially years of over grown bramble wouldn’t be the kindest of vegetation to have to clear.
The reason that I have mentioned the walling is that the field that can also be seen behind the Sheep pen and the bank of the stream, was ploughed when we re-grassed it about six years ago. When the field was being ploughed a large piece of stone was hit by the plough. The Contractor who was doing the work was not a happy man. The stone damaged the plough. We dug what we thought was a stone up, revealing a Mill Stone. I left it in the field by the side of the Hedgerow and until today thought nothing more about it. Could it be that the old wall that we still have to reveal and the Mill Stone go together?