Last weekend we drove down to Devon, to visit Paul’s family. We stopped at Paignton seafront, where we played a dancing game on the pier, took lots of photos underneath the pier, and chased a big crow who was trying to break open an enormous shellfish by dropping it on our car! I am full [...]
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This little cutie was begging for another piece of the muesli bar that I was eating.
Today we went to the Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre, for a wildlife photography course. I learnt far more on this course than I did at the Twilight Photography one. I think the course and the teacher were just better suited to the way I like to learn. I’m really pleased with today’s pictures (which are [...]
Natural History Museum
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 [...]
Portwrinkle
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 [...]
Canada Goose Drama
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]