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June 2023
- 6 June 2023
- So much for my hope of regular updates! At Least I am providing a few new pages for 2023:
- The Wildlife page now has entries for Gadwall Ducks and Wigeon.
April 2023
- 18 April 2023
- I hope that I can begin keep the updates coming after a bit of a
lapse. Today there's just one entry:
- In the Poor's Allotment Area:
November 2022
- 2 November 2022
- This set of updates completes the record of the construction of the
"Tree House" we had built to commemorate our wedding in 2015. Taking
advantage of the time going through the old photographs, you'll also
find a few further entries have been added to past years. Because of
some ill health in recent months there's also been some delay in
getting current material onto the site. Today's updates help fill in
some of the gaps.
- In the Lake & Grounds Area:
- 4 September 2015 - Tree House Base Ready!
- 12 September 2015 - Tree House At Wedding Day
- 17 September 2015 - Tree House Progress
- 24 September 2015 - Tree House Complete!
- 23 October 2015 - Kingfisher On The Bridge
- 19 September 2022 - Muntjac And A Cat Use The Bridge
- In the Poor's Allotment Area:
September 2022
- 30 September 2022
- This set of updates ensures that all the captions for the "Today's
Image" section on the Home page include a link to a page that tells
you more about the image. The following are new pages that needed to
be created.
- In the Lake & Grounds Area:
- 28 September 2022
- Today it is announced that the last of the more than 270 posts on the old blog has been transferred to this site. These posts are now in the Gardens area. As with the Poor's Allotment area the Gardens area has had a similar technical change although, for the time being, there remains a single index where all entries are listed on a single page.
- It should also be noted that a number of entries in the Gardens area
have been split into multiple entries. For example, the one on the
building of the cart shed, covered three years from planning in 2013 to
final construction in 2015. Such posts have now been broken down so it
is easier to see when each activity or event took place. Below are
listed the most significant changes.
- In The Gardens Area:
- 2013 - The Plan For A Garage
- 28 March 2014 - A Garden In Need Of Attention
- 19 April 2014 - Just 17 Comes Home
- 21 August 2014 - Patio Furniture Arrives
- 31 October 2014 - Garage Foundations Constructed
- 1 November 2014 - Patio Plants And Chiminea
- 15 November 2014 - Brick Edging and Fresh Gravel
- 26 May 2015 - Our Trees Are Clipped
- 2 October 2015 - The Completion of the Garage
- 26 September 2022
- Today more material has been transferred to this site from the old Blog. This group of pages completes the transfer of all the Lake & Grounds and Poor's Allotment posts from the old Blog. There's more material that the wildlife camera has captured that was never posted on the old blog, so there may be further entries posted in past years still to come.
- As the Poor's Allotment area is likely to expand there's also been a
technical change. Now each year has it's own index in similar fashion
to the Lake & Grounds area of the site. The Poor's Allotment
option on the main menu will now take you to the current year and you
reach earlier years via the "Related Pages" options.
- In The Lake & Grounds Area:
- 30 May 2020 - Pigeons and Muntjac
- 31 May 2020 - Lake Views For May
- 27 September 2020 - More Storm Damage Discovered
- 27 September 2020 - Water Rises Throughout The Day
- 28 September 2020 - Peter's Field and our Path Floods
- 20 October 2020 - A Heron On The Bridge
- 27 November 2020 - The Green Team's Last Day
- 28 November 2020 - A Heron Hides In The Reeds
- 2 December 2020 - Bubbles Confirm An Otter
- 10 December 2020 - Logs Chipped To Dress The Paths
- 11 December 2020 - Otter Has Breakfast and Lunch
- In The Poor's Allotment Area:
- In The Lake & Grounds Area:
- 24 September 2022
- Today more material has been transferred to this site from the old
Blog. These complete the transfers from the old Blog to the Lake &
Grounds area up to the end of March 2020.
- In The Lake & Grounds Area:
- 5 January 2020 - A Fox Runs And Muntjac Graze
- 31 January 2020 - Lake Views for January
- 10 February 2020 - A Light Snow Shower
- 25 February 2020 - A Final Wedding Present In Place
- 25 February 2020 - Squirrels Seen Again
- 27 February 2020 - An Egyptian Goose Drops In
- 29 February 2020 - Lake Views For February
- 20 March 2020 - Passing Lily Root And Primroses
- 23 September 2022
- Today the transfer to this site the Blog pages that cover the construction of The Manna.
- 20 September 2022
- Today we complete the transfer to this site of the Lake & Grounds posts for all of 2018 and 2019 from the old blog. These two years were very thin on posts, but there are old photos to go through, so there may be further previously unpublished additions to come.
- 19 September 2022
- Today we complete the transfer to this site of the Lake & Grounds
posts for all of 2016 and 2017 from the old blog. You'll realise that
it wasn't just leading up to the wedding that entries got thinner on
the ground.
- In the Lake & Grounds Area:
- 15 January 2016 - Soft Hail, Not Snow!
- 16 January 2016 - High Water And Weed Worries
- 17 January 2016 - A Walk To The Tree House
- 17 January 2016 - More Chippings On The Main Path
- 31 January 2016 - Lake Views For January
- 11 February 2016 - More Chippings Are Laid</li>
- 13 April 2016 - Laying Grids To Improve The Path
- 30 April 2016 - Lake Views For April
- 8 February 2017 - Geese Inspect The Duck House
- 10 February 2017 - Swans On The Island
- 28 February 2017 - Lake Views For February
- 7 March 2017 - Bank Clearance Remains Still In The Lake
- 31 March 2017 - Lake Views For March
- 30 April 2017 - Lake Views For April
- 12 October 2017 - Munjac Mother With Young
- 15 October 2017 - The Pheasants Think It's Spring
- 18 September 2022
- Today we complete the transfer to this site of the Lake & Grounds
posts for June-December 2015 from the old blog. You'll note that
entries got a lot thinner on the ground as we approached our wedding
day on 12 September and beyond that date.
- In the Lake & Grounds Area:
- 6 June 2015 - Holidaymaker Rakes Out The Weed
- 11 June 2015 - Swan Family Revisits The Lake
- 30 June 2015 - Lake Views For June
- 2 July 2015 - First Kingfisher Of The Year
- 2 July 2015 - Norfolk Hawkers
- 3 July 2015 - Azure Damselflies Amongst The Lilies
- 14 July 2015 - Decking Work Continues And Swans Return
- 15 July 2015 - Quay Heading Completed
- 31 July 2015 - Lake Views For July
- 1 August 2015 - Decking Work Complete
- 8 August 2015 - Injured Juvenile Moorhen
- 13 August 2015 - Moorhens
- 21 August 2015 - A Cricket On The Kitchen Window
- 23 November 2015 - Timber Ready For Chipping
- You will also find that the page 1 August 2015 -Decking Work Complete has been moved from the Gardens Area to the Lake & Grounds Area as that keeps all entries on the topic together.
- 15 September 2022
- Summer was a busy time and updating the site got delayed. However,
keeping the wildlife camera running was a priority and today a number
of videos put together from the clips it provided have been uploaded.
- In the Poor's Allotment Area:
- 30 May 2022 - Roe, Muntjac, Squirrel And Heron
- 27 June 2022 - Stoats, Birds And Muntjac
- 4 July 2022 - An Owl, An Otter And A Visiting Cat
- 11 July 2022 - A Bolder Cat, Curious Deer And A Bat
- 1 August 2022 - A Look At Behaviour Patterns
- 15 August 2022 - More Behaviour to Examine
- 22 August 2022 - An Otter Seen Again
- 5 September 2022 - Red Deer Seen Again At Last
- In The Lake & Grounds area:
May 2022
- 23 May 2022
- While catching up on the transfer of old material to the site has been
the priority so far this month, today a set of videos from the
Wildlife camera have been uploaded and, from 2020, some photographs
and stories behind them have been added to the site.
- In the Poor's Allotment Area:
- 9 May 2022 - A Fox Is Captured Twice This Week
- 16 May 2022 - Roe Deer Are Seen Twice This Week
- 23 May 2022 - Heron, Roe Deer And A Kestrel
- In The Lake & Grounds area:
- 16 May 2022
- Today we complete the transfer to this site of the Lake and Grounds
entries for May 2015. We also have some new pages for this year:
- In the Lake & Grounds Area the following pages have been added:
- 4 May 2015 - A Pike Is Seen
- 16 May 2015 - An Otter Visit And Walking The Grounds
- 17 April 2022 - Muntjac Captured After Dark
- 11 May 2022 - Large Pike Spotted
- 11 May 2022 - Muntjac On Neighbour's Field
- 14 May 2022 - Stored Paving Slabs Moved
- 14 May 2022 - Gosling Count Goes Down
- 16 May 2022 - Changing Swan Behaviour
- In the Lake & Grounds Area the following pages have been added:
- 7 May 2022
- Today we complete the transfer to this site of the Lake and Grounds
entries for April 2015. We also have some new pages for the current
month:
- In the Lake & Grounds Area the following pages have been added:
- 4 April 2015 - A Walk Around The Grounds
- 12 April 2015 - A Pheasant Fishing?
- 14 April 2015 - The Cottages and Canada Geese
- 28 April 2015 - A Cygnet, Geese and Ducks
- 30 April 2015 - Lake Views For April
- 28 April 2022 - Our Swans Return
- 5 May 2022 - Goslings Hatch
- 7 May 2022 - Path Improvements
- 7 May 2022 - Counting The Goslings
- In the Lake & Grounds Area the following pages have been added:
- 4 May 2022
- Today we complete the transfer to this site of the Lake and Grounds
entries for March 2015:
- In the Lake & Grounds Area the following pages have been added:
26 April 2022 - A Stork On A Neighbour's Tree. - 3 May 2022
- Today we complete the transfer to this site of the Lake and Grounds
entries for February 2015:
- In the Lake & Grounds Area the following pages have been added:
April 2022
- 28 April 2022
- We have two additions to the site today:
- In the Lake & Grounds Area the following pages have been added:
- 26 April 2022
- We have one addition to the site today:
- In the Lake & Grounds Area a new page has been added:
- 23 April 2022
- We have further additions to the site today. In the Grounds Area, all
the items for January 2015 have now been transferred to the site from
the old blogging platform. There's material for this year:
- In the Lake & Grounds Area new pages have been added:
- 21 April 2022
- We have a number of additions to the site today:
- There is a new Grounds Tours item on the
main menu.
This takes you to an index page that currently holds three full tours of the grounds made in 2015, 2020 and 2022. Each tour consists of seven or eight parts holding between 70 and 100 images with an accompanying description. - In the Gardens Area new pages have been added:
- In the Lake & Grounds Area new pages have been added:
- In The Poor's Allotment Area:
Also over the last ten days, following the completion of the transfer of material from 2014 from the old blogging software, more links have been added to the text accompanying the "Today's Image" on the Home page.
- There is a new Grounds Tours item on the
main menu.
- 10 April 2022
- Today we have one addition:
- In The Poor's Allotment Area:
- 8 April 2022
- Today's additions are listed below. This set completes the transfer
into the site of the backlog of Lakes and Grounds entries between
September and the end of 2014:
- In The Lake & Grounds Area:
- 1 September 2014 - A Cormorant Calls Again
- 3 September 2014 - Now Ducks Go Walkabout!
- 10 September 2014 - Dragonflies Are Still About
- 22 September 2014 - A Deluge Of Seeds
- 16 October 2014 - High Water
- 4 November 2014 - Beautiful Sunset And Mystery Plant
- 24 November 2014 - The Island Clearances
- 6 December 2014 - Clearance Of The Island Complete
- 13 December 2014 - The Lake Freeezes
- 25 December 2014 - Christmas Day Ramble Round The Grounds
- 31 December 2014 - The Lake Is Frozen Again
- In The Lake & Grounds Area:
- 5 April 2022
- Today's additions to the site are listed below. The first group
completes the transfer into the site of the backlog of Lakes and
Grounds entries for August 2014:
- In The Lake and Grounds Area:
- In the Poor's Allotment Area:
March 2022
- 29 March 2022
- Today's additions to the site are listed below.
- In the Poor's Allotment Area:
- 21 March 2022
- Today's additions to the site are listed below. The first group
completes the transfer into the site of the backlog of entries for the
Lake and Grounds area for July 2014:
- In The Lake and Grounds Area:
- In the Poor's Allotment Area:
- 16 March 2022
- The "Administration" section of the site's main navigation menu now
appears at the bottom rather than following the "Main Areas". Today
also sees the missing entries for May and June 2014 on the old blog for
the "Lake & Grounds" Area added to the site. The new pages are as
follows:
- 3 May 2014 - Around The Lake And The "New Path"
- 13 May 2014 - The Lilies Are Rapidly Growing
- 16 May 2014 - Do We Have Water Voles?
- 23 May 2014 - Lily Growth Continues
- 5 June 2014 - Everything Is Growing
- 6 June 2014 - Bumble Bee In An Iris Flower
- 7 June 2014 - Norfolk Hawkers Mating
- 11 June 2014 - A Surprise Clutch Of Ducklings
- 12 June 2014 - A Norfolk Hawker At Rest
- 13 June 2014 - A Norfolk Hawker Over The Lilies
- 22 June 2014 - The Duck Family Visits Again
- 15 March 2022
- Today sees all the missing entries from the old blog for The "Lake
& Grounds" Area between January and April 2014 added to the site.
The pages are as follows:
- 15 January 2014 - Lake Views For January
- 13 February 2014 - The Geese Are Back
- 19 February 2014 - Another Walk Around The Grounds
- 24 February 2014 - Resident Geese Chase Away Newcomers
- 16 March 2014 - Swans In Residence?
- 22 March 2014 - Lone Goose Sees The Daffodils Bloom
- 27 March 2014 - The Murky Water Clears
- 1 April 2014 - A Goose Nest Is Discovered
- 6 April 2014 - A Set Of Oars Is Acquired
- 10 April 2014 - Lilies Appear On The Lake Surface
- 11 April 2014 - Wandering Around the Lake
- 12 April 2014 - A Case Of Wandering Iris
- 14 March 2022
- There's been some more tweaks made to the code underlying The Manna
section to make maintenance of the site easier once the backlog of
entries begin to be made. The new additions to the site are listed
below:
- In the Poor's Allotment Area:
- In The Lake and Grounds Area:
- In The Manna Area:
- 12 March 2022
- Today sees the completion of the job of moving the 2013 postings about
The Grounds from the old blog to this platform. And there's two further
entries for 2022.
- 14 November 2013 - A Swan Invasion
- 1 December 2013 - Autumn Is Not Over
- 4 December 2013 - Around The Grounds And Lake
- 6 December 2013 - Views Of A Partially Frozen Lake
- 13 December 2013 - A Fully Frozen Lake
- 20 December 2013 - Around The Grounds And Lake
- 19 February 2014 - Another Walk Around The Grounds
- 10 March 2022 - Dredging The Boundary Dyke Continues
- 11 March 2022 - Dredging The Boundary Dyke Completed
- 10 March 2022
- More of the backlog of entries covering The Grounds in 2013 have been added together with a update from today.
- 9 March 2022
- There's been some more catching up with our backlog of entries from
2013 plus two new entries made this week. In the background there have
also been a few tweaks made to the styling code to keep things looking
neat as portrait orientation images are now being added to the site.
- In the Grounds Section:
- In The Manna Section:
February 2022
- 28 February 2022
- There's been some minor tweaks to some of the page styling and more entries have been added:
- 22 February 2022
- To complete the backlog of entries for 2022 the following pages have been added:
- 21 February 2022
- To answer an emailed question about how we fared in Storm Eunice, a couple of pages have been added to the Lake and Grounds section:
- 19 February 2022
- I have realised it's much easier to work through the old material
in chronological order, so the updates over the last two days include:
- 10 May 2013 - We've Moved In!
- 11 May 2013 - The Duck House Is Occupied
- 14 May 2013 - The Gosling Is Growing
- 31 May 2013 - Pike Are Still To Be Seen
- 18 June 2013 - The Gosling Is Growing Fast
- 22 June 2013 - Now You See Him...
- 23 June 2013 - Morning and Evening Lake Views
- 27 June 2013 - Another Pair of Canada Geese
- 8 July 2013 - An Emeror Dragonfly and a Toad
- 13 July 2013 - The Little Fish Are Growing
- 28 July 2013 - A Gathering of Geese
- 16 February 2022
- Updates over the last few days include:
- In the Gardens section the following page has been added:
- The Grounds Section has been provided with a separate index for
each year. In addition, the following pages have been added:
- 2 July 2014 - Deer, Eggs, Ducks & Cygnet
- 4 July 2014 - Another Possible Resident Bird
- 27 August 2014 - A Kingfisher Again!
- 2 September 2014 - A Swan Goes Walkabout!
- 7 September 2014 - Seeds on the Lake
- 27 September 2014 - A Swan, Dragonfly, Vole Holes and More!
- 1 October 2014 - Adult Swan Visits Again
- 25 October 2014 - A Dragonfly and Lake Weed
- 10 November 2014 - "Our" Swans - A Pair?
- 23 December 2014 - A Month Of Lake Views
- 13 January 2015 - A Cygnet Reappears
- 23 January 2015 - Breaking Through The Ice
- 31 January 2015 - Another Month of Lake Views
- There's also been a few tweaks to the code to improve the presentation of the pages.
- 10 February 2022
- Updates over the last two days include:
- In the Gardens section the following page has been added:
- In the Grounds section the following pages have been added:
- 8 February 2022
- Updates made today include:
- New Next/Previous graphics added to page links in each of the major section of the site.
- Wildlife Page: Added links to new pages covering Roe and Chinese Water Deer and the Common Newt
- In the Grounds section the following pages have been added:
- In the Poor's Allotment section the following pages have been added:
- 7 February 2022
- Updates made in the last week include:
- Wildlife Page: Added link to a page covering the Frog
- Some broken links have been fixed.
- 1 February 2022
- The site is re-launched in its new form and currently has around 70 pages. Material is still in the process of being transferred from the old platform which contains over 250 pages, so don't expect all the new material to appear at the top of the various main area pages where the latest dates are.