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Pure eternity
It was nearly eleven o’clock at night on a Sunday evening in February, the first full day of our holiday in beautiful Rauris in the Pinzgau region of the Austrian province of Salzburg. The best of all...
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Welcome back, Mr and Mrs Duck
It was good to see my ducks back in the garden a few days ago. They are not my ducks, of course, they are wildlife, who enjoy my garden and the pond, which is just behind them out sight in this...
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Nature’s amazing patterns
The combination of the angle of the sun, the delicate, bare trees and the partly snow-covered ground created this fascinating and mesmerising graphic pattern on the steep side of a valley in the...
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The art of self
‘The art of placement is extremely important’, I thought when I spotted this handsome resident of the village of Wörth in the Rauris Valley in Austria. Then I thought ‘no, the art of self-placement’...
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The travellers of an early morning
At 06:20 this morning my world was shy and mysterious with a whisper of frost, hiding in thick fog. Twenty minutes later and just five minutes before Mme Soleil stepped through the door, the solidity...
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My captivating mornings
One of the first sights that I encounter every morning is the view from the room, in which I get dressed. It could be anywhere and only happens, by life’s coincidences, to be Oliver’s Castle on...
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Must be spring
The morning light may be grey and the calendar may insist that it is still winter, but nature has other ideas. The first two baby rabbits of the year have arrived in our garden only three days ago,...
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Brotzeit
A home-made loaf of sourdough rye bread, fresh out of the oven. “Brotzeit” is good solid, rustic (and probably out of fashion) expression used in Austria and southern Germany for what the British...
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Heading for the sun
A sunrise at sea, in the English Channel, from last week’s sailing. We had left Brixham an hour earlier and were headed for Cherbourg, France. Our 400 nautical miles cruise on board a Jeanneau Sun...
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A frosty spring morning
According to the calendar spring is well underway – the vernal equinox occurred last Friday. I was sailing from Cherbourg to Poole that day. Compared to last year, spring is slow and late arriving....
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