Introduction, from Mary

[maowen]

Hi i'm Mary and live in Dunton, Essex. I have known of the Minack Chronicles for about 20 years now have all books in hard cover and some in paper back. I also enjoy the very talented Gary Kennon's CD Minack Magic and can totally identify the lyrics in Magic Ground.

My husband John and I enjoy visiting Cornwall at least once a year, and visit Oliver Land of course. We last went there in September with our friends from Australia who I met through the original Chronicle Trust website.

We have three Burmese cats two girls who are now 7 years called Daisy and Lama and our latest boy who is 2 called Oliver. They are our pride and joy.

I work in Local Government and enjoy my leisure time with my family and also observing the many birds and animals that live amongst us in the countryside. We feed badgers and foxes every night and I managed to treat the fox (Felicity) successfully from mange. She is in splendid condition now.

Well that's me

[Linda]

Hello Mary and Welcome!

Have you any photos of the badgers or the fox....they must trust you implicitly....we managed to get about five feet from a badger that lives on our farm and felt very privileged to be so close to true nature. On another occasion we were driving hoem and saw one on the road and stopped to usher it off the road into a field. Its truly wonderous when these occasions happen. I love your name for the fox.

Will you be coming to the AGM this year?

I used to visit several times a year and now because of where I am I haven't been for a number of years, indeed the last time I went was in 2000 for my honeymoon! I miss it greatly!

Welcome again and I hope you make many friends here too!

kindest regards

Linda

[gloria townsin]

Hi Mary nice to meet you through these pages. You are in the next county to me so not that far away. We were in Cornwall during Sept we have been looking for a property to buy down there - we are off to visit again on Sunday, we stay on the Lizard - Mullion Cove in fact.
Speaking of wild-life in the week just before Christmas I was travelling home through the lanes when out of the corner of my right eye I saw something move from the woods. That part of the lane goes steeply down and turns sharply on a left hand bend only to turn again just as sharply to the right. When I saw the movement I slowed right down in fact almost stopped. Then my heart nearly stopped as a small deer began to tip-toe onto the road. Knowing there would be a car coming fast up the hill on the same side of the road as the deer I prepared myself to leap out of the car and hope to make it run back into the wood. Fortunately with only seconds to spare and before I could actually bring the car to a stop, which I have to add would not have been the best place to come to a halt, the deer thought better of it and slipped in fact melted back into the woods. Within seconds a car had sped up the hill and had driven right over the exact spot the deer had just been standing on. Neither the deer or the driver of the car will ever know how close they both came to a horrible accident.

[Kath Mulligan]

Hello Mary, welcome to our group. Hope you enjoy chatting on the forum. Love the "Chronicles" names you have given to your cats!

We have a fox that lives somewhere in our vicinity. Our neighbour keeps hens, just over the hedge at the bottom of our garden and a neighbour saw the fox slinking up through our front gate very early one morning just before Christmas. We think he had been after the hens, but fortunately he didn't succeed this time.

I can't keep any cats or dogs because I am allergic to them, but I feed the birds and our garden resembles the bird supermarket! We have a bird table, plus fat ball feeders and peanut holders spread around the two trees, plus containers at ground level for the ground feeders. I spend a fortune on seed, nuts, mealworms, fat balls etc for them, but it such a joy to watch them flocking into the garden.
We get collared doves, blackbirds, crows, starlings, tits, sparrows, wrens, dunnocks etc visiting daily, and a gorgeous friendly little robin. They are so used to me feeding them now, that most of them don't even fly away when I go out to restock the table, they just perch on the washing line watching me, then swoop down again before I have even got back indoors.

It's wonderful to be in touch with wildlife, isn't it? We used to have a robin who would land on my hand to take food, and I am hoping that the one who visits now, will eventually be tame enough to do the same.

[nashie]

Hi Mary
just to welcome you to our forum and hope you enjoy talking to all the other Tangye fans. Sorry this is a bit brief, but it's nearly 1am and I was just having a quick look at the Forum and realised I hadn't seen your introduction. Look forward though to hearing from you
Regards

John

PS I don't suppose I'm the only one who can't resist logging on at this time of the morning, am I?

[gloria townsin]

Hi Mary

John

PS I don't suppose I'm the only one who can't resist logging on at this time of the morning, am I?

NO!! :D