easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in culture, exhibitions, inspiration, nature, photos on Jul 16th, 2010
This is the Natural History Museum in London. Quite a typical view - looking over the central hall from the giant sequoia tree, over the top of the big dinosaur skeleton, to the statue of Darwin on the main staircase.
Usually people are so busy looking at the dinosaur that it simply doesn’t occur to them [...]
Posted in inspiration, nature, photos on Jul 14th, 2010
While we were in Devon, we thought it would be rude to go home without paying a little visit to a beach. We were told that Portwrinkle was the closest beach that didn’t require climbing down a million steps, so that’s where we went.
As you can see, Portwrinkle beach is made from stones and shells, [...]
Posted in nature on Jun 21st, 2010
(Picture by Paul, taken in May 2008)
This weekend my parents came to visit. On Friday afternoon we all went down to the lake where we took part in a Canada Goose Drama.
A swan came and attacked all six of the goslings, splitting them up from their parents and chasing them away. As soon as the [...]
Today we took a trip out to the Wolf Conservation Trust at Beenham for their open day. They’re not usually open to the general public, so the place was very busy. We took our cameras, and so did almost everybody else, but we were saddened to notice that the bigger the lens, the ruder the [...]
Yesterday we went to a Live Crafts food & craft fair at Mapledurham House. The highlights of the day for us turned out to be the food fair, and the birds of prey.
Ben Potter had brought along owls, eagles, a kite and a vulture. Sadly we missed most of the actual displays, but Bramley the barn [...]
It started snowing again at about 6 o’clock yesterday evening. It hasn’t stopped yet. There’s almost a foot of snow here now, which is sufficiently rare in the South of England that everything’s ground to a halt.
We don’t have snow ploughs down here because we don’t usually have enough snow to need them, so most [...]
Posted in inspiration, nature, photos on Dec 18th, 2009
I went for a walk in the snow this morning. I took a grand total of 99 pictures, then came back and edited them down to just 9. I went out rather early, so although there was a lot of light reflecting from the snow, it wasn’t really daylight yet. As a result a lot [...]
Posted in inspiration, nature, photos on Nov 18th, 2009
This is the big fat frog that hopped out from underneath the broken fence as we were pulling it down. He didn’t seem too keen to get out of our way - Paul had to rather unceremoniously pick him up and plop him down in next door’s plant pot!
This morning, whilst wandering around on Flickr, [...]
I’m just dropping in for a flying visit to upload the photos from the first part of our honeymoon - you can see them all here.
Yesterday we had a Falconry session in the morning, and an Encounter With Owls in the afternoon. This enormous chap was featured in both. His name’s Woolly, and he’s an [...]