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Where waders put starlings to shame

It is a fact that circumstances which at first appear to be negative sometimes end up being the opposite, and my family’s twice-rolled-over holiday in Northumberland proved to be such a case. We had booked our house for midsummer, but COVID-19 arrived and that was that.

Dates moved not once but twice due to lockdowns and the numbers in our combined family being deemed not safe by the Government. October, a year and a half later, ended up as our due date and we went for it, hoping the weather gods were on our side. Actually, October can be rather a good month, with the

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