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Happy New Year

12/31/2010

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Wishing you a peaceful, relaxed, and enjoyable New Year
and all the best for 2011
Carola and Trillian
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Squirrel Hunt

11/21/2010

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Trillian looking for squirrels
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I see one!
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The prey (15 ft up!)
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Where's it going?
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Ready to launch...
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Taking off...
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Up, up and away.... out of the picture! Trill was doing 180s in the air.
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Autumn thoughts

11/13/2010

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This is what I see at present looking beyond my computer and out of the window. At least, right at this moment the sky is not at all this colour--it's grey grey grey and dripping. But the birch trees almost make it seem sunny. I have two big birches in my back garden, carefully planted hammock-hanging distance apart. Not that I have much time in the summer for lounging in the hammock, but when I do, it's bliss. There are usually chickadees hopping about in the branches above me--and Trillian doing her best to climb the trees after squirrels.

The birches are still golden but the big-leaf maples and wild plums have dropped most of their leaves in the street already, so I've been out shovelling them into the hedge for mulch. I've been pruning blackberries--a bloody business--and sawing down various branches I've foolishly allowed to grow over fruit trees, cutting off their light. In this climate, it's rarely wintry enough to make yard-work impossible. Unpleasant, yes, but not impossible. And there's always plenty to do. Endless refilling of bird-feeders, for instance...

I often wonder how I ever have time to write!
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News

07/27/2010

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Great news: my publisher wants another Cornish mystery!
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Great cover: the UK edition of the next Daisy mystery. Coming in April 2011 in US and UK. You can see a larger version here.
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Not so great news: Trillian came in from the garden absolutely covered in tiny burrs--forget-me-not, I think. Imagine trying to get them out of that tail! Brushing won't do it. I've been picking them out by hand at intervals all day.
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Guest blog, just me and my dog

07/09/2010

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http://coffeecanine.blogspot.com/2010/07/carola-dunn-trillian.html

Except I don't drink coffee, so it's Tea with Trillian :-)
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