The first day of the month walking in Tremayne woods – a local walk close to us – Autumn had arrived overnight, a crisp morning with a cold blue sky and racing pink clouds.
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We had some spectacular storms during mid September, violet grey skies and orange flashes from sheet lightening and thunder claps louder than I have heard since being here. It was a month of unsettled weather, vast quantities of rain with all the usual fallout from such
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Exciting news for us this month – a beautiful, White Barn Owl is once again resident in our barn.  Is it the old one returned, or a completely new bird?  How are we ever going to tell?  The original Owl has not been sighted for 18 months or more and, neither has there
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I spoke about the continual presence of Buzzards in the June blog – well, it continued on into this month on a daily basis, no matter the weather. On one early evening I counted 16 of them flying above me and the house.  I have never seen or heard that
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We were lulled into false dreams of hot, sunny days after May’s sweet offerings but alas June was colder than average and all the fruit and vegetables suffered, as did the humans.  Last year,
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This is the month when we all fall in love with Cornwall again and forgive it for the weeks and weeks of rain soaked dog walks in the howling winds. We still got plenty of that during this May
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Still the rains continue to fall

The land was already saturated from a wet start to the year and March continued in the same vein by bringing double the,
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‘Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies,

Let them live upon their praises,

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Winter showed its true colours for a moment at the start of the month, surprising us with hard frosts. The car doors became frozen, unable to open, and fingers aching from cold. Minus 4.7
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The warmth stayed with us for the first half of the month with temperatures in the low twenties across England. We harvested baskets and boxes of Squash, Corn, Apples and Medlars,
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I ended the August blog with a line about a chill descending on us, heralding the change of season from Summer to Autumn. How wrong I was – September brought us day after day of hot
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During this month the terrible weather has been talked about endlessly, almost as if it has been a surprise. A miserable month with almost continuous rain, two major storms, (Antoni and
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