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Carol Whittaker's avatar

Well it's been a while since I made a comment, although I have been regularly reading all the delicious things everybody has been writing! Looking forward to Almanac 20025! I had my op in july and received a lot of good wishes from you! Nearly two months now, doing my exercises, a lot more mobile than I was and actually went out for a walk with my litter picking friend Gill yesterday! There is still a bit of pain, still need the morphine, but only when it gets really bad. Which is less and less. I hope you ae all well and enjoying what seems to be a bit of Sunmmer here in Somerset! Keep well and never give up!

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Lia Leendertz's avatar

Sounds like it is still tough but so glad it is slowly improving - so lovely to get a walk I bet! x

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Carol Whittaker's avatar

Hi Lia,

Yes I suppose it is still a bit tough, but with the verbal support and friendly support, it certainly does make it worth fighting and exercising for! Love you all x

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Sue Armstrong's avatar

Sending you love and good wishes Carol - sounds like good progress. I’m in a similar position with recovery from chemo for the past month and very low magnesium to recover from ( which causes weakness) so when I can manage a short walk I’m delighted too.

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Carol Whittaker's avatar

Hi Sue,

I know it is a big problem, I too have osteoporosis! I just managed to get the op by a fluke! Keep positive and we will both be walking as much as we want! xxxxxxxx

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Mo's avatar

lovely to hear you're enjoying your walks and healing well

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Lou B's avatar

Dusk comes early enough now for me to spot bats whizzing about as I get ready for bed. Magical!

Some very sad news from the pond at work though. The 4 cygnets are doing well, getting bigger by the day and starting to test their wings. However, one of the adults has been killed. We're left with a mass of feathers and blood, and questions as to what happened. You make some peace with the wee ones going because you know they are feeding other babies, but this loss seems a tragic waste.

Hopefully my Almanac will arrive in the post in the next few days.

The highs and lows of life.

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Lia Leendertz's avatar

How awful I'm so sorry

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Rosamund Saunders's avatar

I am a great bat fan too, early in the year I enjoy the dusk when swooping swifts morph in fluttering bats.

So sorry about the swan, how very sad

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Sue Armstrong's avatar

So sad to hear that- the victim of a predator do you think?

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Lou B's avatar

The rumour is a dog off it's lead, but there are also lot's of foxes about.

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Callie Dawes's avatar

We went to Norfolk for a couple of days - never been before and went to long, wild and very beautiful beaches and to our amazement saw grey seals frolicking on the shore line on every beach - magnificent

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Cathryn Thompson's avatar

Watching the sparrows flit in and out of the hedge is a joy - they’ve set up home this year in our garden and such a small thing has brought me so much happiness watching them. I do love a collective noun, so we’ve got a quarrel of sparrows, they’ve certainly been noisy enough this week.

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Mo's avatar

i love that, a quarrel of sparrows!

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Sally Ann's avatar

A feeling that Autumn is waiting in the wings, as I return to drinking baked apple tea as part of my bedtime routine. A blue berry bush that is still giving, creeping out in my pjs each morning to pick just enough to top my porridge. Rescuing a goldfinch that stunned itself flying into an upstairs window and planning swift boxes. 🌼

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Wendy Turner's avatar

Walking in the company of butterflies along the coastal paths of Pembrokeshire. So deeply grateful for a full weeks' holiday, and to find I have miles in my legs at last.

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Sue Armstrong's avatar

That’s wonderful Wendy - I’m so glad. I’m not there yet as problems with my bloods has left we weak and wobbly since chemo ended, but I am improving slowly. Sending love and warm wishes for further recovery dear x

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Mo's avatar

Yay to improvement, slow improvement is still improvement x

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Anne's avatar

That must have felt wonderful.

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Mo's avatar

Dew! Lots of it, wellies needed.

the neighbour's children bringing me a bag of apples they'd picked for me

Bryony berries red, holly berries still green.

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Ruth H's avatar

Sun-bleached grasses and seed heads burnished by low slanting morning light, golden against clear blue sky.

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Rosamund Saunders's avatar

A 360 degree view of the London skyline from a roof garden of yellow grasses and Japanese anemones. The neo-classical buildings stand out most and The British Museum dominates. Standing next to the ice cream freezer at my local shop, taking time to choose … a break from the humidity outside.

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Eve Russett's avatar

My three year old coming home with blackberry stained fingers after every walk, the sound of honking geese and the golden light when hanging out the washing first thing this morning.

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Lieke S's avatar

The first properly woven spiders web with it's creator dead center hanging proud in the back of our garden.

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Frances Ray's avatar

A black bear sashaying along the sidewalks, walkways and driveways in my neighborhood with not a care in the world, pots of mums which will hopefully all open, hummingbirds begin to solo travel south.

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Paula P's avatar

Yes, we have had a visiting hummingbird!

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Frances Ray's avatar

Such intrepid travelers!

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Tracy Coward's avatar

The first dew-sparkled cobwebs in the early morning, the last few swallows swooping over the field, and daily calls of buzzards floating overhead. Lia I love that phrase 'the last breath of summer', that completely sums up how this week has felt.

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Juliette's avatar

An exciting week as August finally rolls to an end, nature around me feels like it’s having a collective sigh of relief too. Clinging on to the last flush of green and rainbow explosion of colours for all the flowers and produce the garden brings, can now slow down. The light hits different and the air is breathable again.

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Art Vandelay's avatar

Visiting a nearby plant nursery at Heddon on the Wall to enjoy their vivid dahlia fields between squalls of rain, and as a bonus seeing four buzzards gliding and soaring together, their mewing the perfect soundtrack to the towering grey skies.

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Sue Armstrong's avatar

Oh yes - the Dahlia’s at Heddon are glorious!

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Anne's avatar

A gorgeous week of gentle weather. There’s still a lovely scent from the sweet peas and the roses are full of flowers again. Robins singing, jays screeching and the crows dominating everything as usual.

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