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Patch in the Forest
Elizabeth West
A chronicle of a couple who moved to the Forest of Dean in the early 1980's, their tribulations and joys as they settle into the area after periods in North Wales and Suburbia. This book is a delight of observation of day to day comings and goings, not of people, but of the wildlife that is all around Elizabeth in the Foprest of Dean, be it the fairly common lacewing, a socially excluded chaffinch, a mistle thrush enamoured of other birds' bathing habits, a playful squirrel, a bossy crow, a lost pipistrelle, of nests of blue tits under the bath, of ants, foxes, stags - even Forest sheep. The appearance of these creatures often holds up Elizabeth and Alan as they try to establish a garden on what appears to have been a carefully disguised builders' tip. The book is clearly set in the Forest, with some of the ancient rights discussed, for the Forest and its ways gently seep into the household.
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