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 [...]
Category Archive for 'nature'
Leaves in the snow.
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 [...]
Square Format
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 [...]
Look who I met today. Isn’t he adorable?
This little grey squirrel spent all morning running about in the rain, digging holes in my back garden and burying his stash of winter goodies.
When he’d finished, he decided that it would be a good idea to sit on my fence and bark/honk/screech at me for a good [...]
Over the weekend Skycarrots hosted a harvest festival!
A small group of us got together and brought masses of food and drinks that we’d grown, foraged, brewed and baked. All of the salad and vegetables were from Sarah’s allotment, with the addition of my cherry tomatoes. The big square pie is pumpkin and feta, and the [...]
Slender Loris.
Posted in exhibitions, inspiration, nature, photos on Sep 25th, 2009
This skinny little fellow is the skeleton of a Slender Loris.
One of the projects I’m currently working on as a volunteer is rebuilding the website for the Cole Museum of Zoology, so I thought it would be useful to go and have a look around. I’m so glad I did!
If you’re freaked out by skeletons [...]
No, not tiny little woollies to keep them warm. Instead, Seasalt in Cornwall are holding their annual “Go Knit!” charity drive.
This year they’re collecting donations of hand knitted scarves, and all proceeds from their sale will go to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.
Bees and knitting are two of my passions, so obviously I’ve sent my scarf [...]
I’m sorry I haven’t been posting about anything other than work lately, but that’s because I haven’t really been doing anything other than work!
I have finally managed to buy a new bike, so today Paul and I cycled all the way to (guess where…) work, so that I could time the journey. The theory is [...]