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No idea, mate. Even if we had, I doubt I'd remember you. I almost never remember names, faces, or the rest of it! Now, routes, landmarks and that kind of stuff - that, I remember. I believe our minds work in different ways, and that we should all just accept that!

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Blimey - really? 6.5 hectares times roughly 2.5 to convert to acres equals (hang on a tick) a bit over 16 acres! Come to think of it, it looked roughly that size to me. You've talked to Mike? I can't believe he wouldn't be interested! But, if not, Dunsmore Living Landscape will want to know.

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I received a letter from Reform today. It was bleating about how useless everything is in Britain today. It arrived about seven hours after I cast my vote in the local election. I'd quite like a conversation with this lot about why the bloody hell they thought they had a right to contact me!

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I would think older people get "portmanteau" words. After all, the term derives from the children's novel "Alice in Wonderland", published 1865. The character Humpty-Dumpty uses the term to mean two words put together to mean something new, and that's how it's still used.

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Is that the tiny bit of of Warwickshire that you and I ducked through, lost as anything, last summer? Have they now cut a few paths? Quite fun, though.

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It certainly is! Where?

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Nice! I thought I had a pyrausta aurata today, but it was a Small Yellow Underwing.

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happy may day here is a painting I did a long time ago

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Well done - I haven't seen one in 2025! It's worth carrying a moth ID chart (I use the Field Study Council's one) just so you can sort out the curious people who say "I saw this black and red butterfly yesterday - what was it?" If it wasn't a Red Admiral, and it's in spring, it's a Cinnabar moth.

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Thanks, I'll bear that in mind while recording - though the Bedworth Burnet Companions are, in my experience, pretty co-operative when it comes to ID!

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I like that we're now reporting first sightings of common day-flying moths. A few of my favourites are already out - I look forward to the first Chimney Sweepers. I've recently found a few sites with flowering pignut, which is a near-guarantee of the lovely little moth.

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Just use anything that'll hold water! My work-place recently had its lights replaced - I managed to get hold of most of the old fittings. Large plastic roundels - very easy to clean, and last for ages! The important thing is to wash the bird-baths frequently.

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I saw my first at Brandon Marsh a few days ago - one of my favourite butterflies!

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My painting TOWERING STORM

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Great, thanks. Must get over there. Pretty good species-counts at Coundon Wedge today, but we don't get the scarcer species over there. (As far as we know!)

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Nice photo! So few stay still for even a moment.

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Always worth checking around your moth trap. Some moths like to chill on the outside 😆 This pale tussock being one of them. What’s your best out-of-moth trap find? 📷 K.Thorpe

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Oh, that poor woman ....

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Male and Female Dingy Skippr #butterflies on the larval food plant and a Gren Hairstreak butterfly egg laying on Dogwood were among the delights @warwickshirecc.bsky.social Stockton Cutting this afternoon. @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social One SSSI in improving condition :-).

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Lots of Dingy Skippers seen while volunteering with our Warwickshire Butterfly group at Nelson’s Quarry. Also, Peacock, Brimstone & Holly Blue butterflies. @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social

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Snort ... you know when you want to cook frozen peas with tonight's dinner, but you spill a few on the floor? Easter Bunny droppings.

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You have your own marsh?

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Yup - one of the other two is an impressionist. But I think the third is simply dead. And none of the three has enough leaves to attract Brimstones - which is the point of them!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

That's the sort of picture I'd enjoy in a gallery - maybe even look at it for quite a long time - but wouldn't want on my wall at home. Beautiful, but not quite beautiful enough to buy the print.

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Wow! Only one of the three saplings I got off Mike on Saturday is definitely alive. Not sure about the others - but never mind! It turns out you can pull up runners very easily at this time of year. (of course, choosing those which would otherwise be trodden on or otherwise killed.)

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

... as the chap on the cross-channel ferry said on a rough day.

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"Double, double, toil and trouble" ... you must remember that bit, surely? It's part of the same incantation.

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I watched one on primroses at Brandon Marsh NR a couple of weeks ago.

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Well ... all I can say is ... if you keep your saddlebags THERE, your poor horse will have something to complain about!

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Night Night, Blue Sky Walkers, sleep tight.😴 Sunset over my beloved Blue Ridge Mountains, NC.

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Dorset, indeed. Did they used to be found all over the UK? It is, unfortunately, very difficult to ask William Shakespeare's opinion these days, and I don't know whether or not he was well-informed on native reptiles. (The Witches' song in Macbeth suggests not!)

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

That's just silly. Try brown sauce instead.

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Oh dear! Someone is looking for this little Alpaca. (The person might perhaps believe it's a Unicorn - no-one is going to contradict - are we?) Safe journey home, little one!

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Gorgeous! We don't get them up in Warwickshire, unfortunately.

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Yup!

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Green-veined White, I think, lower third of the photo, in the middle?

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Also known as Lady's Smock. Now, I'm quite well-informed on folklore, but I have never seen any information as to why this pretty wetland flower is called Lady's Smock. Any ideas?

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I love crab spiders! Very variable in their colouration, fascinating little creatures.

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You aren't a real person. Why the hell would anyone want to talk to you? It's perfectly obvious that you're a very bad AI bot.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Oh, thanks! Very clear explanation. Now, if only I can work out how to work back on Bluesky (I never could on Twitter) - because I have no idea how to find the post to which I was replying. And I already have no idea how to find out what you posted before.

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Ooh! Where are you? They can't be long in finding their way back to Warwickshire!

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Well, of course, that'd account for it! I understood the first half-sentence. I have no idea what, in this context, is meant by a 'paradigm'. Does "PWGer" relate to old German?

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

You will also find that a pencil gives you a great deal of notice before it stops working. (Pens, rather less. Bloody things!) I recommend propelling pencils - they work for AGES, never need sharpening, you just have to make sure you have at least one spare lead in the barrel.

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I think you'll find that the correct term is "sell it back to the dealer."

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Moosen.

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Also louse: lice. Although not house: hice - although certain royal personages pronounce the word that way!

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