Tag: dawlish
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Foreign Land
‘Whenever George thought of the sea, it seemed to him a kindly place mainly because he imagined himself floating away on it leaving his unbuoyant father stranded on the beach. On summer holidays, first in Dawlish, then in Ilfracombe, Mr Grey led his family to this dangerous element like Moses going at the head of…
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Sun god
On Sunday morning I couldn’t sleep – I got up to watch the sunrise and decided to go for a walk after breakfast. I left the house before 9 o’clock and went very quietly down to the park. Tom told me on Friday that a buzzard roosts in the tree on the island – I’ve…
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Fungi
Snow last night but bright sunshine by 11 am and not too cold for a walk. In Oaklands Wood the bluebell leaves are pushing through and the ramsons are already well up and smelling strongly. Oyster mushrooms Pleurotus ostreatus
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Little red flames
Hazel catkins (Corylus avellana) 5 March 2009 All rights reserved * * * * * She was a strange figure in the class-room, wearing a large, old cloak of greenish cloth, on which was a raised pattern of dull gold. The high collar, and the inside of the cloak, was lined with dark fur. Beneath…
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Powell’s of Whitefriars
Tilework by Powell’s of Whitefriars, St Gregory the Great, Dawlish. More pictures and information to be added soon…
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Little Trotty Wagtail
LITTLE TROTTY WAGTAIL by John Clare (1793-1864) Little trotty wagtail he went in the rain, And tittering, tottering sideways he neer got straight again, He stooped to get a worm, and looked up to get a fly, And then he flew away ere his feathers they were dry. Little trotty wagtail, he waddled in the…
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Three-cornered garlic
Keble Martin, in the 1969 edition of The Concise British Flora in Colour, describes this plant as “Naturalized in woods, etc., in W. Cornwall, S. Wales, S.W. Ireland and Guernsey”, and the flowering period as April to June. Since he spent much of his life in Devon it seems likely that it wasn’t found here…
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Ash twigs
‘The ash’s branches grow upward, dipping down towards their ends but then rising once more so that their tips reach toward the sky. The buds of the ash are its most distinctive parts. They are sooty black, covered in hairs, and have s phallic appearance. As the sap rises in spring, ash buds begin to…
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Winter Heliotrope
Although this plant is a pest in the garden it smells very sweet in the winter sunshine – on a December morning there was a bee at work on this clump of flowers. Status: a naturalised garden escape.
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Hoare Mausoleum
This mausoleum belonging to the Hoare family of Luscombe Castle was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-78), architect of St Pancras Station and the Albert Memorial. Situated in the south-west corner of the churchyard of St Gregory the Great, Dawlish, Devon, it is a large Gothic Revival mausoleum built in the form of a…