Far From the Madding Crowd: May 2012

Sunday 6 May 2012

Surprises Today, The Lovely and The Nasty

White Throat, a photo by Linda Yarrow on Flickr.

I had two surprises today, the lovely and the nasty. The lovely surprise was while I was sitting in my garden, enjoying the rare sunshine and sipping my tea, a White Throat appeared in my garden for the first time. This picture I took last year at Durlston Country Park. Now for the nasty surprise, while I was having a shower this morning, I found a tick on the back of my leg ¦:-{ horrible! I couldn't believe it! And where the hell it came from I do not know. I picked it off intact, it was alive and crawling on my hand, well I soon got rid of it :- [

My Blog

I have taken the title of my blog from Thomas Hardy's fourth novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd' which he wrote in 1874. He took his title from Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' completed in 1750. Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset where he lived for most of his life and where he based the stories in his novels. The word 'madding' means frenzied and there is a sense of freedom I get being out in the countryside and being close to nature away from the frenzied atmosphere of the towns and cities. I live in Dorset and like Thomas Hardy, it is where I have lived for most of my life, my blog is mostly about nature in Dorset. I am a member of the Dorset Wildlife Trust. I will include my garden and anything of interest about the natural world in Britain.

Far From the Madding Crowd

Friday 11 May 2012

Cowslips

Sunday 6 May 2012

Surprises Today, The Lovely and The Nasty