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+ learning fast. - - I told you before that there were a wonderfully varied lot of birds round here + then at [Pasford?] (Burtons) they have the stream by the house + get the water birds as well - --- I'll have to get some books + then I'll be able to tell you them all when you come home. - I hope you'll like living here - - I think it is lovely. Yesterday we put up an electric [fencing?] in part of the clover field - - many of our [illegible] fences are not good enough to keep stock in safely - - hence the electric fence. - - This morning