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Popped into Chance Wood last weekend. The Bluebells are just starting to flower. Should be a nice show in a couple of weeks

Hope so Freddie.

We finally used up all the Country Fayre grant on Monday as we finished the fencing at the southern boundary of the reserve.

During the couple of hours the volunteers spent there we saw and heard a good range of birds: Robin, Wren, Blackbird, Mistle Thrush, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Long Tailed tit, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch, Buzzard, Raven and Jackdaw.

We have started surveying the small mammals and recorded Woodmice and fox.

Work parties stop for the rest of the spring and summer to avoid disturbance and damage to the wildflowers and nesting birds. However we will return to deal with balsam in the early summer.

Roger

I took these a couple of weeks ago. I had a go at translating some of them, but didn't do very well
Poor Sam. I wonder what happened to him?


In fact, what happened to any of these dogs? This was Spitz. Who knows what type of dog Spitz was? Possibly he was a working dog, with pointy ears and maybe good at catching small animals, as lots of dogs in the spitz family are strong working ones. Akitas and Huskeys are two types of spitz.



Poor Tim died on March the 7th 1903



Rumour has it that the pet cemetery is haunted by the ghost of a long deceased white dog. Luckily I didn't see it on this visit.




This is Jingo (I think). He died in 1889. The desciption is A companion, faithful and true. How ace is that? He sounds a good boy.


This is Whisper. He died in 1927. Shot, we think he was. How sad



One of my favourite ones, a sad story as well. Bailey (? - a real guess there)
The poor dog was killed on the railway, nearly 70 miles away from where he was buried. Was he on holiday?
Llanvihangel Crucorney is a small village in Monmouthshire.
The railway had became part of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway by the time the dog was killed, and was later axed like many by Dr. Beeching in the 1960's.




I can't work out the main writing on this one. Can you help?



I can't read the name on it. I have uploaded a bigger resolution. It's a bit of a rubbish picture, but even when I was there it was impossible. Evans?
Whoever it was died in March 1909


Here are some more dead dogs. The nearest one was Punch, who died in 1893.



Additional Pet Cemetery information, fact fans:
In January 2010, West Lindsey District Council gave permission for a site in the village of Stainton by Langworth where animal remains can be interred alongside human remains as part of a "green burial" site, making it the first place in England where pets could be buried alongside their owners.

**If you are worried this might attract too much attention to such a lovely place, then please feel free to remove it.**

Far from removing this contribution I have to compliment BathroomGecko on a truly fantastic addition - Thank You!!.
A damned good show indeed !
Just wish I could remember how to upload pics to the forum - any advice appreciated.

Thanks very much

Posting pictures is not too hard. They need to be on the internet first. (If they are your pictures, then you an upload them to Photobucket or Flickr, both free for people who only upload a few a month)
The web address of the photo needs to be put between two tiny "tags". The first tag is in square brackets and so is the second one. The web address goes between the square brackets. [img]***************************[/img]

Hopefully when you post it, it should look like this



Both Photobucket and Flickr have buttons to copy the code (the bit with the tags around the web address) to make it easier. If you are posting your own photos and clarity is essential, the flickr seems to be slightly sharper, but only a fraction. Photobucket is easier to post from.

I hope this helps.

Thanks for the guidance BathroomGecko - I'll give it a go again

Thats a superb shot of one of the Rockhouses
Would you give consent to it being used maybe on the Front Page of KOL please?
With suitable credit of course.

Thanks very much. Of course you can use it for the front page. It is a portrait orientated shot however, rather than landscape. I uploaded the full resolution to Flickr if that is any help. Here is a link to the full set.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richboxfre ... 412344798/