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Ludd

Member since Nov 2008 • Last active Mar 2023

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    Somewhere I do have a photo of you and Middleofnowhere on the bmx track. Will have to dig it out.

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    Looking south west this afternoon

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    That reminds me about the challenge of identifying whether the fish you’ve caught is a vendace or a schelly or a houting - the Freshwater Biological Association (I think) had a postal service so you could send the fish to them in the post and they would tell you what it was. They provided detailed instructions on how to wrap the fish before dropping it in a letterbox.

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    More from today!

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    I tried, and at about 9.20 when I went down to the field on the north edge of the village I could just make out a faint vertical band of light. It showed up quite red on the camera, and another fainter one appeared a while later.

    Second image stretched to bring out more colours

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    ^fab shots, as ever! Hoping it will be clear again tonight, I gather the lights may be on again.

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    Lots of owlery yesterday, all a bit distant but still lovely to watch the hunt. Some crows came to give it a bit of grief.

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    I suppose if nobody has claimed it, it could be regarded as belonging to the Parish Council. Nobody has yet applied for it to be registered as having rights of common over it, but do feel free to bring your flock so long as they don’t eat the hellebores.

    We might look into putting in an application to be the registered proprietors as that will simplify a future sale (our mortgage lender struggled to understand and accept it).

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    Our place in SE23 has a side access which was registered in the names of some untraceable people with an address in North London. They were possibly the successors to the owner of the land when the area was developed in the late 19th and early 20th century. It was one of many such alleys in the area which would have been used for delivering coal, but most have been blocked off by people extending their gardens. We accepted the uncertainty on the basis that there was probably sufficient history of use for us to rely on. I ended up doing most of the bramble control. But yes, see what the solicitor comes up with, and be ready to accept some uncertainty.

    Our current place has an even worse issue - our title stops at the threshold of our front door and “our” front yard is unregistered.

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