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| More snow at the Wood |
I found lots of deep snow, well up to my boot tops. It is sticking very tenaciously to the branches of the trees. It is the sort of dry snow that doesn't make snowballs, so we would have difficulty running the Eurostar trains here; and I am thinking of opening a ski slope.
In one place, the deer had clearly been scraping the snow away to get at something to eat, which seems to have been dead bracken.
In this sort of place, in this sort of weather, I recommend reading Michelle Paver's books about life in the Stone Age. I recently read a review of her books which said that they were a good thing for modern children to read, as they show how it is possible to exist without pretty much any of the things we would regard as essential.
Photos will follow, when Livy has stopped cleaning her stairs.
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Ok- why were they found as corpses? Is there a local madman bumping people off or more natural causes? Also why were you kneeling on Livy's present? Accident, intended purpose or malicious intent?
Found as corpses because they had died, of course. As to why they died - harder, as the BBC website tends to say there will be an investigation but teasingly fails to tell you later what it discovered. You should look at the Scottish section of the news website. There was an amazing man last year, age something over 80, who went for a walk on the golf course one evening in winter and got caught by his trousers on a barbed wire fence. He had incipient hypothermia but didn't die of it, though he lost a leg because the blood flow had been obstructed by the trousers. He died several months later, never having been quite right thereafter. There was also the body found in a tesnt about 100 yards away from the West Highland Way - a chap who had disappeared about a year before. And so on.
Yes you have guessed right - Livy's present to me was - ta dah - a kneeler.
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