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  • Mr Badger opens a bottle of scotch
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  • Mr BW's wallet turns up in vert strange circumstances
  • Mrs BW goes off and the Weasel has a go at cooking
  • mud and stuff
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  • Music
  • My chain came off along way from home
  • My wallet goes disappearing to kick off the New Year
  • Nature
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  • piles of dog hair under the bed
  • Plumbing
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  • rain
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  • rain and dogs
  • rambling
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  • Re-wilding
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  • red deer
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  • religion
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  • riding gear
  • Robert Frost
  • rolling down the hill
  • Romanian Rescue Dogs
  • Rough Farm tracks
  • rugby
  • SAD
  • Salewicz
  • saturday morning stroll in the woods
  • science
  • Scotland
  • self catering
  • Self service checkouts
  • Selfish Dog Owners disturb curlews
  • Several small badgers get drunk
  • Sexed Semen
  • sharing
  • Sheep
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  • Sheep dog
  • Shop signs
  • Short eared owls
  • silence
  • Sledging
  • sleepovers
  • small badger in the corner
  • small fierce dogs and unsatisfactory baguettes
  • Small Furry Creatures
  • snow
  • snowfall
  • Snowfall in the Goyt
  • Sod's Law
  • Solomon's Temple
  • something sinister has happened in the woods
  • Spear tackles
  • Spilt coffee and toilets that don't flush
  • Spring
  • Spring sunshine
  • Springwatch
  • Squabbling tits runs risks
  • squashed frogs
  • Squirrels
  • Stags in the Goyt
  • Steady kid
  • stopping off to look at the view
  • strolling on a Sunday morning.
  • Stupid Laws
  • Stupid people and toilets
  • Stupid pet names
  • stupid sheep
  • Sunday
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  • Sundays
  • Sunset
  • Super Bike
  • T-rex
  • tea
  • teenagers
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  • Tents
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  • Thatcher
  • The Allotment
  • the beach
  • the bearded one
  • The birdwatchers lurk in the gloom at Arbor Low
  • The British Embassy
  • the church inn at chelmorton
  • the Clash
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  • The Dale
  • the end of the day.
  • The goyt and her birds
  • The Goyt in the snowfall
  • The hyocrisy of the sporting world
  • The Munch falls of bhis horse and the Weasel gets round her dad
  • The on set of premature memory loss
  • The Police
  • the pope
  • the road not taken
  • The weasel goes out early
  • The weasel returns and all is well after a fashion
  • The weather in Buxton is often dull
  • The Wiz
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  • The worlds fattest hamster
  • therapy
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  • tired
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  • Tractors
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  • Twisted marketing and rather good PR
  • Uncategorized
  • unroll the badger
  • update
  • Useful words and their meanings and the fledglings wind up Mr BW
  • Virgin Trains
  • Waiting for the Weasel
  • waking the weasel
  • Walk in the woods
  • walking
  • Walking is boring and pointless
  • walking on christmas eve
  • Walks
  • washing up
  • watching a buzzard glide and soar
  • water
  • weak pathetic male hiding behind curtains
  • Weasel.
  • weather
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  • wedding dresses
  • weekend
  • Well I am jolly glad that's over until next year
  • Welsh pluck and guts
  • Wet weather
  • Whaley Bridge
  • Whats wrong with the trains
  • Where am I then?
  • where have all the curlews gone
  • Why?
  • wildmoorstone
  • Wilkinson kicks England into the final.
  • wind
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  • wind. patient dog
  • Winding up our antipodean friends
  • Winter
  • wireless
  • Wiz gets to Leeds Met
  • Wiz in Oz
  • Woodale
  • Woods
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  • words and phrases
  • Words can be confusing at times
  • World Politics
  • worrying about which directions to take
  • writing space
  • you should see the size of the moles

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