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About borderslynn

Retired, living in the Scottish Borders after living most of my life in cities in England. I can now indulge my interest in all aspects of living close to nature in a wild landscape. I live on what was once the Iapetus Ocean which took millions of years to travel from the Southern Hemisphere to here in the Northern Hemisphere. That set me thinking and questioning and seeking answers. In 1998 I co-wrote Millennium Countdown (US)/ A Business Guide to the Year 2000 (UK) see https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780749427917

Disposable Males

Posted on August 27, 2013 by borderslynn

This August we had two full moons in the same month, so another incidence of Blue Moon. I had thought the next one (see last August blog) was not due until 2015. My facts were not well enough researched it … Continue reading →

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Heavens Above

Posted on August 15, 2013 by borderslynn

As the heatwave began and developed during July, each day we, the population of the UK, cringed in fear that it would break and start to rain thereafter, as had happened so miserably in the previous year. But it went … Continue reading →

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A wind farm threatens our landscape

Posted on July 24, 2013 by borderslynn

Application Ref : 13/00789/FUL I am writing to object to the development of “Windy Edge Wind Farm”, a proposed development comprising of 17 wind turbines up to 121.5m high to tip AND associated infrastructure, on land North East and North … Continue reading →

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Midsummer, Supermoon and Death

Posted on June 25, 2013 by borderslynn

When the longest day fell on the 21st of June, it was dark and overcast and seemed like the shortest day. Thousands of years ago our ancestors would have been most put out to find their stone circles could not … Continue reading →

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Raining In My Heart

Posted on June 14, 2013 by borderslynn

We have enjoyed some glorious hot days since the beginning of the month. The Met Office have warned that may have constituted our Summer for 2013. Certainly, as the jet stream gave us our coldest spring for 50 years, it … Continue reading →

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Bees and Wild Flowers

Posted on May 28, 2013 by borderslynn

The last few days of May, 2013 included a Bank Holiday. Friday through to Monday was glorious; hot sun beating down. Monday turned to rain but quenched the dry ground. I had to remove a few ticks from my dogs, … Continue reading →

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Glass Eels and the Gulf Stream

Posted on May 16, 2013 by borderslynn

It is mid-May and snow has fallen to a depth of 2 ins down in the south west of England. Here it is -5 degrees centigrade. The swallows called one day when it was warm, earlier in the month, but … Continue reading →

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Instrument of Death

Posted on April 25, 2013 by borderslynn

Last weekend I was appalled to find someone had placed a bird trap between a sycamore tree and the burn which I walk the dogs by twice a day. This was 7 am. A young bird in the nest in … Continue reading →

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Reaping the whirlwind

Posted on April 9, 2013 by borderslynn

I am currently surrounded by fells covered in sandy coloured dried grasses, beneath which new shoots of vegetation are growing slowly, held back by the persistent easterly cold Siberian wind which has blown over the UK for the past month. … Continue reading →

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Spring Equinox

Posted on March 19, 2013 by borderslynn

In the last week of February our single snowdrop plant, bearing about 8 stems of flowers, appeared outside our room window. The nearest other snowdrops to be found are 5 miles from our cottage. They grow in abundance where the … Continue reading →

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