Geese galore

A few years back I was visiting my old home town of Cardiff. During a  stroll to Roath Park Lake, I was rewarded by the sight of a couple of Canada geese bobbing cheerfully in the water. They were imported from Canada, a local informed me. Obviously no one had bothered to tell the keepers of the lake that Canada geese reproduce – quickly.

Here they are in Oakville:

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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit

Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to eat: it was a hobbit-hole and that means comfort.

And here is a piece of prime hobbit real estate: Bag-End.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAThe tree on top of Bag-End is fake and was assembled by hand at the cost of around $800,000 – so we were informed:

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERASamwise Gamgee’s house, 1 Bagshot Row:

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAThe Green Dragon where I had some stout:

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAIf anyone is wondering what keeps the sheep out (there are a lot of sheep here), it is the electric fence:

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