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We get wintering Blackcaps in our garden every year, and this spring there was a resident bird through the summer in our neighbourhood too. Yesterday, 6 December, there was a male Blackcap on the fatballs in our garden. That’s great. But it is also the earliest winter record, ever, in our garden. The previous earliest…

Last week, the door fell off our decades-old oven. They don’t make ovens just like ours any more so if we wanted a simple replacement then it just can’t happen. Through our large range of ancient-oven-owning local contacts we found the details of a man who fixes oven doors. He sounded amazing – one person…

The failure of the Arcadia group has been no innocent rural idyll. Sir Philip Green is a great poster boy for both capitalism and the Honours System having received his knighthood in 2006 for services to the retail industry. It’s a pity that these things don’t have to be renewed every few years (and it’s…

Tim writes: I spotted this young leveret crouching low in the grass near Holmfirth in late July.  It was in a field next to a road, and I stayed on the road with the 420mm lens so as not to disturb it.  Brown Hares give birth to about three litters each year, producing one to…

A recycled cartoon, but some things remain true – see here.