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week-notes ⸱ Gita Bapat

Conference week

Week Notes 15 - 22 September 2026 15Tuesday First step to becoming a toothless crone has made me feel v out of sorts 😢 16Wednesday First choir. The first four notes and I'm home 17Thursday 18Friday 19Saturday Busy, busy. Councillor Surgery, walk Fergus as J still in Norfolk, pack, Sindhu
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Nature ⸱ Gita Bapat

Yew

Field Notes — No. 10 Yew 17th September 2026 I know that this probably didn't start off as wild and it's certainly not a rare find but every year I want to capture the matt, almost velvet beauty of yew berries which aren't in fact
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Nature ⸱ Gita Bapat

Fungi finds of Autumn 2026

Field Notes Fungi Log Autumn 2026 Fungi finds of Autumn 2026 Giant Polypore 14 September Facts Latin: Meripilus giganteus Size: Rosettes to 50cm+ Habitat: Base of beech/oak Note: Pale flesh bruises black within minutes Oysterling 14 September Facts Latin: Crepidotus sp. Size: Cap 1-6cm Habitat: Dead twigs, broadleaf
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week-notes ⸱ Gita Bapat

My diary - 1

Week Notes 10-14 September 2026 10Thursday Meeting with resident in her home. Tea with sweeteners and a mini roll. Glad that one of my asks has been taken up 11Friday Remembering: John was in Paris. I left several hysterical voicemail messages, which he didn't or couldn'
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Nature ⸱ Gita Bapat

A first-time spot on our evening walk

Field Notes No. 09 Badger 12th September 2026 Fergus spotted it, stopped and stared, as is his normal inter-species opening gambit. I thought it was just a fox but when I looked I could not believe that I was finally seeing a badger in the flesh and from their
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diary ⸱ Gita Bapat

Five

9th September 2026 Tonight, across two scrutiny committees, I broke my question duck. (What does that even mean?) break one’s duck /breɪk wʌnz dʌk/  verb phr. 1. Cricket. To score one’s first run after a period of scoring none. 2. Of a councillor: to ask, at long last,
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I've got your back

Blogpost I've got your back By Gita Bapat Wednesday 9th September 2026 I reiterate: this is not supposed to be a misery memoir but this thing is on my overthinking mind and I need to park it somewhere. I have two Council Committee sessions this evening and I
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Not quite the bare necessities

Sculthorpe 5 · IX · 2026 The Meadows Farm Shop 5th September 2026 Strawberries, highland cattle greetings cards, an emergency galvanised bucket for sunflowers. Find them here.
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20 years on

Gita Bapat Wednesday 2nd September 2026 Did he know that I was there by his bedside? They say that your hearing is the last sense to go so I kept talking, just in case, but he didn’t answer and then, when we’d all stepped out, deliberating whether to
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The Poppy Line at Weybourne

Weybourne 31 · VIII · 2026 Weybourne 31st August 2026 We'd been hearing about the little train that runs from Holt to Sheringham for a while, and today was a chance to hop on board. The railway has been celebrating a Festival of Rails programme of summer events this week,
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A seasonal tide

Field Notes No. 08 Moon jelly 29th June 2026 At a glance SpeciesMoon Jellyfish Latin nameAurelia aurita FamilyUlmaridae SizeDiameter 5–40cm HabitatCoastal waters worldwide; the most common jellyfish in UK seas Key facts * Recognisable by four horseshoe-shaped gonads visible through the translucent bell * Its sting is too weak to
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Thornham

THORNHAM 27 · VIII · 2026 Thornham 27th August 2026 Thornham has become one of my very favourite Norfolk places and I visit whenever I can. It needs a dedicated post for the light, the air, the usual wonderfully bleak isolation that pulls me back summer, or winter. So here is a
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