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Sue Robinson
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Love the outdoors and used to love getting out into my local Sussex countryside with my camera. Now it’s mostly memories.
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Something that always warmed our hearts was that Kinsey didn’t once cry after leaving her parents and siblings. Not one apparent moment of homesickness of loneliness. From the moment we set off home with her in our car, she just settled with us.
#KinseytheCockerSpaniel
Sable-coloured English Show Cocker Spaniel, head resting on red blanket as she looks with a touch of side-eye towards the camera.
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Here she is today…🥰.
#KinseytheCockerSpaniel
Head shot of English Show Cocker Spaniel as she gazes into the distance. She has brown eyes, long eyelashes and a dark nose. Her colour has lightened to Sable with little black in her coat. Sable-coloured English Show Cocker Spaniel curled up asleep on a settee. View looking down.
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Kinsey’s 9 years old today! Where have the years gone? We’ve had a few weeks under those 9 years with her in our lives and she’s changed from a tiny, mischievous puppy on the day we brought her home into a loving companion who currently is lying next to me on the settee.
#KinseytheCockerSpaniel
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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It looked a lot worse than it felt! Not sure if it was skin cancer or a wart, so am awaiting biopsy result.
My lip was quite swollen for a few days but there was very little discomfort.
Now I can just about eat and drink normally again, just two stitches to go. Almost healed now. Thanks for asking!☺️
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Phone snap just now.
Reminder: bare feet outside in Winter? Not a good idea.
#Sussex
Daybreak with rich pink clouds behind bare Winter trees.
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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I did! Due to using walking sticks and having to look down I didn’t see many birds but certainly heard a few - including the Water Rail! But looking down means I see more by my feet!
Burdock species seed heads, richly brown and with hooked seeds clearly showing against out of focus yellow and green foliage on a dull day. Two little toadstool fungi growing through moss on old tree limb. There’s deep shade with old leaves all around and just the toadstools bright in a tiny patch of light. Fallen leaves in Autumn, yellow, brown, green, and red. It’s wet, so the leaves seem brighter in the shade under a tree. Cow Parsley flowering late in the Autumn. It’s been raining, so there are raindrops scattered on the flowers and leaves. The leaves are fresh and green and the flowers are creamy-white, bright on a dull day.
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Had minor surgery done at my local hospital this AM. Odd little blemish after dry, cracked lips during hot August.
Anyway, 5 stitches and 2 hours later the local anaesthetic is just starting to wear off. Only cool food and drink for 48 hours. Rest. Sorted.
Free at point of care.
Love the #NHS .
Close-up view of older woman’s mouth with five surgical stitches in vertical row in centre of lower lip, through the vermilion border and down into skin below lip. The lower lip is red and swollen from the minor NHS Outpatient procedure. And the local anaesthetic is just beginning to wear off. Ouch. 😢 But immense gratitude to our wonderful NHS here in the U.K..
November 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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A view anyone living in Lewes will know very well. Quick snap on my phone. Next time I’ll take my camera, on a sunny evening in Summer, when the castle walls glow in the golden hour.
View of part of Lewes Castle in East Sussex, England, during Autumn when the trees have lost many leaves. The different textures and colours of remaining foliage and evergreens give a sense of richness with the grey castle walls rising above them, against a sky with some cloud, and patches of clear blue.
October 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Cocker Spaniel bedhead.
Mine probably looks as bad as I’ve been awake since just after 2. 🥱
Sable Cocker Spaniel head closeup. Kinsey with very untidy hair, as she lies on a bed having just arrived for a morning cuddle. Her head is resting on a protective white sheet that is kept on the bed and the light is a warm glow from an out-of-shot nearby bedside lamp. Her nose is hidden by a fold in the sheet and she’s dozing.
August 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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A brief early evening wander near Beachy Head was rather birdless, possibly due to lots of noisy walkers.
Due to having to look at the ground when I walk I missed the best encounter of a female Sparrowhawk nearby.
Still, my close encounter with a Bloody Nosed Beetle made up for the lack of birds.
August 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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LOL I’ve been catsitting for the past week. Yesterday when Bob joined me in the sun I noticed her “teddy bears” but didn’t manage a decent photo. This is spooky.
#Bobisagirl
A cat’s back foot, showing the pink pads that look Like a teddy bear. Black and white cat lying on her side on a grass lawn, looking at the camera. Black and white cat lying on a grass lawn, looking to one side of the camera.
August 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Made the most of a sunny morning and found the County Flower of Sussex, the beautiful Round-headed Rampion.
It’s also known as The Pride of Sussex, and fittingly it’s often found up on the chalk Downland that, for many, epitomises Sussex, both East and West.
#RoundHeadedRampion
#CountyFlowerofSussex
A beautiful, sunlit, purple-blue Round-headed Rampion flower against an out of focus background of green and brown grasses. Each globular flower head is, in fact, up to thirty individual narrow and curved florets, reaching up from the base of the flower and curling inwards towards the top. Before fully open the flower head appears to be a tight bud, then the florets gradually open and separate. It sits atop a thin, almost leafless stem. The globe-shaped flower head is about 3-4cms in diameter, though they can vary in size,depending on the size of the plants. It’s a good nectar flower and well-used by insects. It’s the County Flower of Sussex (England) and also known as The Pride of Sussex. It’s a perennial, flowering from June to August and is very localised in Sussex, mainly high on the chalk Downland that runs from East to West, and beyond. It’s nationally scarce.
July 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Watching Pointless. Thinking of words ending in “cher”. Said (out loud) “catcher”. The dog has just shot off her chair to go looking in the garden for a cat. 🙄
Sadly for her the door is closed as it’s pouring so she’s come back in a huff and settled back to sleep.
Kinsey the sable English Show Cocker Spaniel settling back to sleep in her chair after a false alarm of thinking there was a cat in the garden but the door’s shut so she can’t go rushing out in the rain to chase it off.
July 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Look. I’m trying to sleep here. Can’t a girl have an undisturbed doze when she wants?
#Kinsey
#EnglishShowCockerSpaniel
Sable coloured female English Show Cocker Spaniel lying on a pale beige blanket in a red leather armchair chair, front paws and head over the arm. Head up, looking at the camera as if to ask why she’s being disturbed when all she wants to do is sleep.
July 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Where I live now is useless for the moonrise. I had to drive, looking for a clear horizon. Made the wrong choice and should have just gone to the coast instead.
Too many trees that were too close to me so by the time the Moon had cleared the trees the gorgeous colour had gone.☹️
#FullMoon
#BuckMoon
July’s Full Moon, also called the Buck Moon, rising behind trees in Sussex, England, on July 10th 2025. The Moon is a rich, deep orange with the tree branches silhouetted, black against the orange Moon.
July 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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I’m not sure what kind of stand-off was involved the last time the verge-scalping contractors came along my road but outside one house there’s a wonderful display of beautiful blue #Chicory that’s been saved from the mowers.
So many swathes of grass are brown, with almost no flowers. Heartbreaking.
Beautiful blue Chicory flowers on a grass verge along a road of houses, with one Chicory flower in close-up and the others out of focus in the background.
July 10, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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At #RSPBPulboroughBrooks today Ragwort was EVERYWHERE, it seemed, and nearly every plant I studied was being nibbled at by Cinnabar Moth caterpillars. Never seen so many (we even have some in our garden).
It was great, using the Tramper, the difference for me between being out, or staying home.
Cinnabar Moth caterpillar on Ragwort plant. Large fungus growing at base of Oak Tree, possibly a fungus of the Oak Bracket species. It’s large and lumpy and has weeping amber-coloured liquid from its surface. Gnarly tree with split trunk, moss and ivy growing alongside footpath. Sun-dappled peaceful scene by footpath, with sunlight catching the fern fronds, and tangled undergrowth green and full of shadows.
July 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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I can’t walk easily at the moment (arthritic knees, steroid jab this pm) so borrowed a Tramper scooter at #RSPBPulboroughBrooks this morning.
My balance is shot anyway and using the Tramper meant I could look around as I pootled along, instead of always watching the ground. I saw so much more!
White Crab Spider with prey on a Thistle Purple Hairstreak Butterfly on Bramble tree Speckled Wood butterfly on umbelliferous plant, in sunshine against black background. Peacock butterfly in sunshine on Bramble
July 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Lovely morning at #RSPBPulboroughBrooks today though there weren’t many birds around. Did get to see (at last!) my first Green Woodpecker of the year, and four Avocets, too. It was sunny, hot and breezy. The best sighting was a Purple Hairstreak.
This Oak was a nice candidate for #thicktrunktuesday
A thick-trucked old Oak tree in full leaf with a view from the ground up into the green canopy.
July 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I might have cleared out kitchen cupboards a few times in recent years but this pot of Arnica tablets in an old First Aid pouch escaped me.
Polly got a nasty whack on the arm from a wind-flung car door yesterday. I hunted, sure we had Arnica.
She won’t be taking these!
#Arnica
#Thirtyyearsold
Thirty years out of date label on a pot of Arnica tablets, held in a hand.
July 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Thank you! She’s a sable English Show Cocker Spaniel in need of another Summer haircut!
Cocker Spaniel lying on her back, feet in the air.
July 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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For some reason Kinsey likes her cooling mat under a low table. Move it out, she doesn’t like to use it.
She’s now flaked out on it with an electric fan blowing on her. The only route into the back garden is across hot paving stones, so I’m restricting her wanderings.
#Kinsey
#HotDog
Kinsey the Cocker Spaniel chilling on a coolmat. It’s already 29°C in the shade outside. She’s better off indoors with the electric fan blowing on her.
July 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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I hope no-one walked their dog in the heat of the day in Southern England today, on any pavement-like surface.
My thermometer at 3pm?
Air temp in the sun was 42°C/106°F.
Ground in shade 36°C/96°F.
Ground in sun?
Off the scale but as near as I can make out 52°C/124°F.
😳🔥
#toohot
#burnedpaws
#dog
Thermometer on ground in sun showing temperature over 52°Celsius or 124° Fahrenheit, recorded mid afternoon in East Sussex, England on 30th June 2025. Posted on Bluesky as a warning against walking pet dogs in such high temperatures. Their pads will burn and the air temperature of 42°C is far too hot for dogs to be taken out walking.
June 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I was an “incomer” aged 15. I’ve lived in various Sussex villages and towns during the 60 years since but always feel my adopted county is home, where my heart belongs.
Happy Sussex Day, Rachael!
For residents of Sussex, England, the Sussex flag, six yellow Martlets on a blue background. Sussex Day is June 16th.
June 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Been away in rather rainy Dorset for a week. Just collected Kinsey from our friend (with whom we exchange dog-sitting holidays).
So far she’s slept all the journey. Guaranteed the first thing she’ll do when we get home is dash into the garden to suss out fox/cat/hedgehog/mouse visits whilst away!
Kinsey the sable Cocker Spaniel fast asleep on the back seat of our car, on her way home after a week holidaying with two other resident dogs at a family friend’s house.
June 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM