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Meet hearing dog pup Marnie! You can sponsor her training and help a deaf person give their love, live their life, and reconnect. Learn more at www.hearingdogs.org.uk/puppy The Grange • Wycombe Road • Saunderton Princes Risborough • Buckinghamshire • HP27 9NS T 01844 348100, Text Relay 18001 01844 348100 (deaf and hard of hearing), F 01844 348101, E [email protected], W www.hearingdogs.org.uk Registered charity in England and Wales no: 293358 and in Scotland no: SC040486 Royal Patron HRH The Princess Royal HOLTSPUR VETERINARY CLINIC 01494 689992 5 Holtspur Parade • Heath Road • Beaconsfield • HP9 1DA Monday-Friday 8.30am-10.30am, and Monday and Thursday 3.30-6pm • A local clinic with professional and friendly staff caring for your family pets • Consultations available by appointment Monday to Friday • Full routine services including seasonal healthcare offers. • Access to an in-house lab, full hospital facilities, Xrays, ultrasound, endoscopy and advanced skills in surgery, dermatology and medicine. • Joining our growing Healthy Pet Club can save you 10% on ALL products and services, spreading basic healthcare payments over 12 months. If you would like more information about our clinic please do give us a ring or call in for a visit. We look forward to welcoming you. (Ample free car parking outside the surgery) South Bucks Branch General Enquiries 01494 564026 Charity Number: 243352 8 | hiyabucks.com COMPOST HEAPS Ol Donyo Lengai in Tanzania is a volcano standing proudly above the Serengeti plains of East Africa. To the Masai tribesman this mountain is their spiritual home which also gives life to many animals. But it may surprise you to know that some animals have different types of meaningful mountains of their own. One such is my compost heap which stands just as high, proportionally, and gives just as much life to insects and other garden animals as Ol Donyo Lengai does to the Masai tribesman. But there are obvious differences, for I’ve built this compost heap with one or two unusual ideas in mind, though I have made absolutely sure that my compost mountain is a giver of life to many creatures in the Millstream Fork wildlife garden. Dead and rotting vegetation starts a whole process of regeneration and new life. As leaves and other vegetable matter are broken down, it is the microscopic animals such as bacteria that begin the