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Whoever coined the phrase

Rain before 7, Dry by 11

 should be dragged before the Beak and

charged with Traducement under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968!

To my knowledge the continuous and heavy rain started at about 02:15 today and now, almost  mid-afternoon it continues as relentlessly as ever. At 04:44 precisely IT tripped the fuses in the homestead, which is the power source for the Electric Dustbin, and while there looks to be a decent catch via a glace through the perspex collar of each trap, thus far the contents remain untouched. Always an UP SIDE to any tale of woe, not given to eating breakfast at all let alone a cooked one, this morning I enjoyed a seared king prawn omelet dressed with just a hint of sweet chili sauce and accompanied by toasted wholemeal cheese bread and a cup of Douwe Egberts.

 On the outskirts of nowhere
On the ring road to somewhere
On the verge of indecision
I'll always take the roundabout way
Waiting on the rain
For I was born with a habit, from a sign
The habit of a windswept thumb
And the sign of the rain
It's started raining

Rain On Me!

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A little remiss with some of our reports of late, we start this Post with a few 'Catch-Ups'. You may remember that at the end of our last issue we were dogged by a small technical hitch which didn't allow the revelation of the latest Harbins Garden Tick. While it is completely unimaginable that a

 COAL TIT

 has never appeared in this well stocked garden surrounded by

 some Pine, Birch, Willow, Oak, Ash and even Elm

 there seems to be no one who has seen or heard this Little Bird.

Next, and that is where a knowledgeable Readership comes in, we

hear from both Roy Norris (as predicted) and Janet Read on the 

subject of the 'unidentified Warship off the East Coast of Portland last week.

They were both in agreement that she is the

 

 Indonesian Navy's Multi-Roll Light Frigate

I.N.S. JOHN LIE

Janet goes on to report that over the last weekend she (the ship that is)
has been in Spanish waters and we can only wish her Bon Voyage!

Remaining in the Far East for a moment, on Saturday there was an

E-mail from my dear friends in Thailand 

JEAN FRANCOIS OZOUX

 and his wife

ROONG

 holding at arms length

AHACTULLA MYCTERIZANS

There seems to be some on-line confusion as to the Common Name

either

Long-nose Whip Snake or Big-eye Green Whip Snake

whichever the family group all go under the familiar name of

Vine Snakes.

Thank You to you LOVELY people.
I have replied to your mail but keep getting a 'Send Failed' signal.

 Much nearer to home and this 

HUMMINGBIRD HAWK-MOTH

was found on a Kitchen Wall in Weymouth and happily obliged with a

'in the hand' shot.

The last of the 'catch-ups' harks back to the 12th July when Dave Foot paid us 

another visit  and on that occasion he found evidence of breeding

 BORDERED STRAW

 Since then I have had 2 reminders to add it to the Property List

and both times failed to do so. Now in its rightful place as an addition to the

Property List it also displaces Blair' Mocha as the 300th Macro on the

Year List which now falls to

 SALLOW.

NOW, where were we, oh yes looking at yesterday's early morning

 CLOUD FORMATION

Again 'Cumulus' but nonetheless attractive for all that, above the

Willows looking every bit like the Himalayas.

Another Zero C on the gadget but another

couple of addition to the Property List, the most attractive

 RED UNDERWING

 which used to be an annual catch in Weymouth and

 CURRENT PUG
which I seem to recall we had here during one of Dave's visit which,
not unusually was overlooked.

While at the traps the throb of more ancient aircraft engines than
we are used to here alerted me to one of only 2 'flying' 

 LANCASTER BOMBERS

left in the World. A little late on arrival but a decent shot of the

Port Quarter

 but primed for the

HURICANE

that followed.

All of this noise seemed no deterrent to the small Male

 SPARROWHAWK

 that had landed behind the Tennis Court netting.

 At first it was thought to have prey

but NO it didn't.

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