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Further on in the field you can see where wild pigs have been rooting and of course there are the deer.This morning I had to take my camera with me to take some pictures:Alan standing in front of a pear tree gone wild.Tuppy, curious about what I am doing.All the yellow patches in the field are cowslips. It is too early for the dandelions to be open and there do not (yet) seem to be many buttercups.Patches of wild orchids. Every year there seem to be more and more patches of these orchids although the field has less wild flowers than when we first came here. Artificial fertilizer was used about ten year ago. I think it was used only for one or two years but it has taken a long time for the wild flowers to come back again. When we first moved here I could pick armsful of wild flowers and decorate the whole house with them. Now, more and more fields are used for agricultural purposes.I do not know the name of these little blue flowers but there are patches all over the field. 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We were stopped by the police just before the english border and told that there had been an accident further on and that the road would be closed for at least another 2 hours. We had to make a detour which put more than an hour onto our trip but I did enjoy it and saw an area I had not seen before the Kielder water. A huge lake in beautiful surrounding but with mostly secondary roads!With the help of my newly installed Tomtom on my iPad we reached the address in Leeds and saw the dog. A little beauty, very sweet tempered,[url=http://www.canadagooseoutlet-jackets@#$%&/]@#$%& jackets[/url], still very playful,[url=http://www.@#$%&-rosherun.fr/]rush run[/url], about the size of Aischa but a different colouring. 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