Thursday, June 02, 2005

Springwatch with Bill Oddie

We have been watching this programme on BBC 2 for the past week. You know, its the one where we watch nests being built, eggs being laid, birds hatching etc. Some of the shots are of Sea Eagles up in Mull, some are of barn owls in Kent and others of blue tits somewhere. Bill Oddie is accompanied by a young naturalist named Kate Humble, who, incidentally, does the zoo watch from Longleat and also has recently been to Africa watching elephants etc. Well today Bill Oddie said to her what are your memories of when you were a little girl and she showed us a film from the top of Chinnor Hill and said that when she was six she and her friend who lived down there - pointing down to Chinnor and we used to spend all our time up here picking wild flowers, watching birds etc etc. Then she interviewed Richard Fitter, a naturalists/writer who lives on Chinnor Hill in a house called Ways. I knew his boys, Julian, who used to run a boating service in the Galapagos and Alistair who was younger. Does the name Kate Humble mean anything to any of you. It is where we went on 14th October last year. I have a good mind to send her some photos of all of us playing with that bomb thing. It was very exciting to see Chinnor again. Dad

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