Cranbrook Iron

Bespoke Ironwork for home and garden, from decorative hooks and stakes to large Wisteria walkways and gazebos; we invent and create in iron and steel.

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@BirgitteUna @northumbriana Dad used to work there. There was a shop. It contained multitudes and the Christmas hamper was a thing of beauty. Um Bongo, already!

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@themarshtit I’ve done a return stalk!

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@steverutt Colin the coot approves.

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@themarshtit Hoping they come back next year. I had to shut their front door this spring while work was done up there and they sat on the fruit cage and squeaked plaintively at me!
They’ll appear on my insta, @let_there_be_weeds with the rest of my wildlife infestations.

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@themarshtit Definitely! I have mandarin ducks nesting in my loft most years. Not that it’s a competition. (It’s SO a competition).

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@themarshtit Wrens nesting in the cement mixer!

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@themarshtit Also Colin the slow worm. Lived under the sink.

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@themarshtit We used to have a family of workshop shrews. They’re very partial to Dreamies cat treats. The big one was called Stu. Always hoped to see a shrew ‘caravan’ but never did!

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#leaving #byebye #pasturesnew #allchange #fabrication #metalart #gardenart #plasmacutting

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@igorpianist Thank you. Easily as good and necessary as the robin switching to his winter song.

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@Hanworth_barn Poplar Hawkmoth

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@Raphaelite_Girl Nope that’ll be that @jeni_cairns that will. Or it might be Blloomnsharp who copies us both!

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@LevParikian Robin doing his winter song. Started about two weeks ago.

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@sciencebase @AlPavey Would that be Marden Bridge middle school that I also went to? From about 76-80. Basically the Pleistocene era.

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@iancbeavis @BritishMoths Possibly, and competing with a huge moon? I usually do very well for all Hawks, loads of Prominents (actually I fibbed there was one Swallow Prom too) and Lobsters. Been quite a disappointing year.

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Looks like a dark crimson underwing? Deceased in mixed woodland in Kent so possibly a bit lost. #britishmoths #moths @iancbeavis @BritishMoths #crimsonunderwing

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@iancbeavis @BritishMoths Well so much for setting the trap. Two Black Arches and a Rosy Footman. And nothing else!

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@iancbeavis @BritishMoths Oh good! It was on a path in woods on the Scotney estate. I’ll set my MV trap tonight. Thanks for the ident confirmation.

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@Louisa_Crispin @andrewdmalone @MarcHeathym007 @PTES Yes it’s a bit of a rubbish take-off!

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@KHWCP @iancbeavis Looks like a nail gall but no idea which one. Very odd!