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Griff Hollows is an idyllic little place hidden away right next to a main road and suburban houses on the edge of Nuneaton. The natural wooded hollow with a brook running through it is full of native bluebells in springtime. The novelist George Eliot grew up near here and it appears in 'The Mill on the Floss' as 'Red Deeps' where the characters Maggie and Philip meet in secret.
This is the last photo of a group that I haven't put any others up from but I think this is the funniest photo I've got when viewed in context.
Day two for Griff has come to an end at Casa White-Watson. This boy is a handful and much more, um, enthusiastic than Ollie was (or we remember, perhaps more truthfully). Good thing he's our second so we know all his little tricks!
Today's video of Ollie and Griff playing. Quite cute.
Bukit Tagar, Selangor, Malaysia.
Eugeissona tristis Griff. Arecaceae. CN: [Malay - Bertam, Indonesia (Ato, Kajatao, Pantu, Nanga, Pijatau)], Wild Bornean sago. Native to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia. Fruits - edible. Stem - starch as the staple food of indigenous people in Borneo. Palm cabbage - vegetable. Leaves - serves as thatch and for the construction of walls. Leaves stalk - used to make blowpipe darts. Edible pollen - eaten as a condiment for rice or sago dishes. Fruits eaten to relieve kidney ailments. Common in lowland forest. Big clump, short stem, thorny. Pinnate leaf ca 6-7 m length, dropping at distal end. Leaflets lanceolate, ca 1m length, 2-2.5 cm width, neatly arranged along rachis. Rachis spiny; spadix terminal. Fruit top-shaped, 5 cm long, scaly, brownish, hard shell.
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Griff with his Grandpa who stayed with us this week and took us to Spur for dinner. Remember when you could eat out in your pyjamas?!
Griff Hollows is an idyllic little place hidden away right next to a main road and suburban houses on the edge of Nuneaton. The natural wooded hollow with a brook running through it is full of native bluebells in springtime. The novelist George Eliot grew up near here and it appears in 'The Mill on the Floss' as 'Red Deeps' where the characters Maggie and Philip meet in secret.