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There are bees buzzing in the comfrey, blackbirds rootling through the borders and my friend the robin singing from the silver birch.

One hot, bright day this year, rootling round in the 'useful' drawer looking for a battery to fit TV remote control, I found an ancient pair of sunglasses, frames large enough to fit a giant panda, but thought 'ah, they'll do to keep in the car for when it's too dangerous to rummage in my bag if the sun suddenly blinds me when I'm driving.

Open your curtains in the morning and spot a couple of pheasants rootling around only a few feet away, while ducks and other wild birds make flying visits.

FROM cut- price jeans to jumble sale tat, we love rootling for a bargain.

So little pools of sky blue among the feet of rootling chickens - invisible until they are pointed out - make a favourite painting seem to throb with life.

It's called Homes Under the Hammer, and in it two presenters (the usual him and her combo) go rootling around properties that are up for sale by auction, voice stern opinions, script appalling puns, accost the buyers, probe their plans, then come back months later to see what happened.

Although she believes more people are getting grubby in the garden, rootling about with roots, she realises many people just like to watch the TV programmes.

A collector of the old school, he derived huge pleasure throughout his life from rootling around, amassing and studying--unusually--both English watercolours and drawings and Old Master drawings.

Not only that,but if you look closely you'll see the nights getting lighter, the snowdrops forcing their way through the snowdrifts and the blackbirds rootling for worms.

THIEVES are using sleight of hand to rob elderly women of the notes from their purses while they are rootling for change, police warn.