Category: Animals
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Cute Critter Friday: Making Waves
The tufted duck was back today, all by himself, ducking and a diving in the Lake, when all of a sudden he stopped. Completely still in the water… he then flicked a wing… kicked a flipper… and created waves all around him. Then, he dove beneath the water’s surface again, and reappeared far on the…
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Reflecting on a life now departed
Farewell Simba, enjoy your new journey It’s a sad Six Word Saturday today, I’m sorry to say. Yesterday, Simba left our mortal coil and headed off to pastures new. To some, she’s just a cat. To others, she’s a friendly, loveable character, with a personality all of her own and she manages, sorry managed, to…
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Cute Critter Friday: The Fish with the Smiley Face!
Time for today’s real Cute Critter post! I was walking around the Lake in the Grinds earlier today when this chap ambled up to say ‘hi’: He was quite shy, and kept bobbing in and out of the water plants that you can see at the top of the above photo. However, as I was…
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Cute Critter Friday: Gull Tikka!
A slight change of plan for this week’s Cute Critter Friday. Pictured above is a poor, unfortunate, and very lucky seagull. For some reason, he fell into a vat of chicken tikka masala, where the curry turned its feathers bright orange! And a very nice shade too, I don’t mind saying. Luckily, the gull was…
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Icewolf on the Nature Trail
#NatureDoodlewash (Loosely, I hasten to add!) We’ve kind of found ourselves a little lost on the Nature Trail today. Knee-deep in snow, which is nice and refreshing for the time of year, we come across the most rare of rare creatures: the Icewolf. Occasionally seen in Cheshire, they are normally found around, strangely, unused stations…
The Mansionic Perspective 