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JUNE 2025

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Well it’s been a busy month! A blackbird in my garden eating. Two pics from a local walk. I went over to Waddingham to catsit for a week while Colin was away.  I so miss the cats but they are happy where they are and, as I’ve discovered, quite fickle! Here’s Quentin after he escapes the en-suite window and walks along the living room roof down to the orchard next door!   Ronnie and I went to Doddington Hall (near Lincoln) one day when he was up here and we had a drink at the Dambusters Pub which is close to the Scampton RAF station where the Dambusters left from.  “ Regarding the history of the pub, the Dambusters Inn was created in 1999 by Mike Knight and his wife, Amanda. Before that date, there had never been a pub in the Lincolnshire village of Scampton.  With local support, and, it has to be said, some local resistance, the Knight family created a pub crammed with artefacts and memorabilia from WW2 and, logically, named it the Dambusters Inn.” On Friday June 13 ...