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In which there is a top cat
It has come to my attention that February 2012 is failing to bring sufficient joy to my flist. I'm sorry my plan to unleash my gas-powered zeppelin fleet on an unsuspecting world, seize absolute power,...
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In which there is illegal forced labour, a sadly deceased sheep, and...
1. Go Team Kropotkin! Iain Duncan Smith claimed "anarchists" had caused the British government to drop its forced labour programme for 18-24 year olds (note: for "anarchists" read "ordinary Brits"...
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In which there are five things giving our heroine spring in her step
A. Tiny!tiny lambs!B. Tiny!tiny lambs and their adorable wee faces!C. Tiny!tiny lambs' wobbly jumping, skipping, gambolling, and accidentally head-butting each other in an adorable display of baby-body...
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In which a lone magpie "mobs" a buzzard
I recently saw a lone magpie (Eurasian magpie, pica pica) manage to successfully "mob" and drive away a much larger buzzard (common buzzard, buteo buteo) from the magpie's breeding territory. The...
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In which there are metrosexuals, urban parties, tmi, and gratuitous goat-spam
1. Infographics FTW! Genderbread person, a sex/gender/sexuality infographic. Just click, m'kay?(Read more ...) comments
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In which there is a male banded demoiselle damselfly
The high winds and constant rain haven't been propitious for photographing wee beasties this year but, after nearly sliding headfirst into the River Avon last year, I managed to get my best ever cap of...
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In which there is overdue lambspam, with bonus unorthodox parking
Lambspam, as requested by silverflight8 and kore. Remember... this post is their fault!!1!! (Apart from the blurrier caps... that's mine and flickr's faults, obv.)(Read more ...) comments
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In which there is someone else's art
Birmingham local council Parks and Nurseries department made some wicker statues for a living sculpture/nature trail around the city centre. All the statues depict specific Olympians from photos of...
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In which there are butterflies: living and sculpted
(Sorry I wasn't around yesterday: tired again)(Read more ...) comments
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In which there are three altered plants: flower, wheat, pine cone
None of these images 100% work for me. The street junk flower needed to exploit the light more to make the shiny metal appear more gold. The wheat wasn't photographed in a field before harvest. The...
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In which there are fun and fungi
1. The Tai Chistas have decided that anyone who falls over during tai chi or chi kung is performing "worm salutation". ;-P(Read more ...) comments
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In which there is the Dalekfly v2
I made some test caps of another version of the Dalek Fairy. Note: no butterflies were exterminated in the making of this assemblage.(Read more ...) comments
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In which there are three butterflies: comma, holly blue, small tortoiseshell
I've seen all of these butterflies in the last couple of weeks but some of the photos are from last year. The ones that got away were several speckled wood butterflies, which are brown with yellow spot...
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In which there are two fungi and a lichen
As Monday seems to have become nature diary day.... I managed to photograph a couple of speckled wood butterflies this week but as I included a link to other people's images last week I won't post...
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In which there are an author, taxidermist, actor, singer & teacher, and...
This is a list of more non-white people who have some significance in British history but don't pique my personal interest (Mr Google is your friend ;-P ).(Read more ...) comments
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In which there are superstitions, writings on the wall
- Doing, Department of Fail: I always have to google for anything in the Guardian twice because my brain seems incapable of remembering that search engines don't recognise Graun as a synonym, heh.(Read...
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In which there are two books and a bookmark
- Reading, books 2013: 16.(Read more ...) comments
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In which there are anthills, ducklings, cygnets, a heron, lichen, and a canal
I went for a walk in Powys in Wales.(Read more ...) comments
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In which life becomes curiouser and curiouser, now with added llamas
- Doing: visiting a canal. Wales: the Holland of the West? But with more land above sea level and less wooden footwear... or something.(Read more ...) comments
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