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It's the flip to Big Blue Diamonds on Okeh Peter.

Not on a juke box, but Edwin Starr's 25 miles was played over the sound system in Morrison's in Gibraltar just before Christmas.

Nice flip too, one of my favourites, a multi talented artist for many years, and will certainly live on through his output.

A couple more on eBay, both far more than I'd want to pay for a new boot.

A Sardinian Warbler taking Baloo's advice

To be honest Martyn, when I saw him I thought he was a woodpecker, they are just a bit bigger than a jay.

There you go

So a pretty rare sight, I consider myself lucky, I was within about 4 yards of it at one time, it didn't seem bothered by me at all.

I think they'd need a really hard winter, mine was round about 1990, and was with a load of Redwing. It stuck out like a sore thumb, and was eating some apples that were rotten and still attached to a tree in an old orchard.

You were helped by having a good food plant outside your window though Martyn, that Sorbus hupehensis is always going to attract winter visitors. Do you get Nutcrackers up your way? The bird, rather than the wooden soldier or metal kind, in case someone was feeling like being sarcastic, I've only ever seen one and that was probably 30 years ago.

Nice one Suz, the attractively named Yellow Brain Fungus and the Honey Fungus (just for those that weren't aware).

Apart from my ticket to Mojacar for Hitsville, Joe Valentine - "I lost the only love I had" on Val for £20 off of someone who thought it was a boot.

I thought I knew the area, old stamping ground for me.

I was thinking that too Steve, but was hoping to narrow it down a lot further, looks like the River Nene, somewhere around Thrapston, but I could be way of course.

It looks familiar territory, but I could be, and probably am, very wrong.

I did try to shoot my brother when I was a teenager, but that wasn't at Christmas

I did try to shoot my brother when I was a teenager, but that wasn't at Christmas

I continue to be amazed by the power of nature, yet we seem hell bent on destroying the beauty of this planet we call home, sometimes I think we're the aliens. I'm not a fan of daffodils, but the specie Narcissus is incredibly vast and beautiful, I still have one or two to find in Spain, and as one is a late autumn flowerer I have that as an excuse to keep searching next year. Bytheway, I was wearing shorts and sandals on my foray yesterday, it was like a late spring day in the UK.

Think yourself lucky, I gave up on Christmas when I was 3, I was given a functional carpenter's set complete with hammer, nails, and best of all a tenon saw, sadly wood was overlooked, so I used my initiative and used it on the wood to hand, lunch time came along and the dining room table was minus 3 legs at different heights. I found out then that the idea of "peace and goodwill" doesn't exist even on the day let alone the season when facing down one's parents. That was my first emotional scarring, of which there have been a plethora over the ensuing years, it's all part of life's rich Aubusson.

Think yourself lucky, I gave up on Christmas when I was 3, I was given a functional carpenter's set complete with hammer, nails, and best of all a tenon saw, sadly wood was overlooked, so I used my initiative and used it on the wood to hand, lunch time came along and the dining room table was minus 3 legs at different heights. I found out then that the idea of "peace and goodwill" doesn't exist even on the day let alone the season when facing down one's parents. That was my first emotional scarring, of which there have been a plethora over the ensuing years, it's all part of life's rich Aubusson.

A rare find today, and only one flower where I was told in previous years they were abundant, the white hooped petticoat narcissus, Narcissus cantabricus

I'm led to believe one must look underneath a tree of some kind.

I'm led to believe one must look underneath a tree of some kind.

Congratulations, perfect timing!

Hope the baby arrives in time for Christmas lunch, good luck