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January 25, 2012 | Wordless Wednesday: Great Bustard at Norwich Castle
January 24, 2012 | If you go into the woods today, you're in for a big surprise not quite fly agaric Serried timber trees, broad trunked with fly agaric mushrooms poking through dead leaves. Why is this the popular image of a wood? Should we blame Racey Helps or Beatrix Potter? Apparently not. According to Oliver Rackham, (the historian of the English countryside) this woodland askew view is to be blamed on [...] December 9, 2011 | This tree is so dead it is alive The blasted trunk, hit by lightening, stands it’s ground in the middle of a footpath. As a stately thing, the tree rules over young sweet chestnuts. Though dead as a dodo and sloughing away its lignified dead cells bit by by, it provides the ultimate wildlife habitat. A sculpture too, to be coveted for [...] October 5, 2011 | Things I like in Battersea Park There are many. It starts before stepping off Chelsea Bridge heading south. The burger van. Greasey smell and crumpled paper not-quite-in-the- bin to contrast with the tai chi. The bicycling, the limber upping, the joggers, runners, the dog walkers. And just the plain old A to Bers. Walking in the dappled shade from the avenues [...] September 2, 2011 | Friday Creature Feature: can some keen entomologist identify this? Cross between a teddy bear and a bee. They move as packs through lavender bushes garnering nectar at high speed. Spotted in Italy. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1259′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); December 5, 2010 | The Death of Crumpet I remember her arrival vividly. Ticking the weeks off on my fingers, it’s possible to work out the date accurately: the first week in May. Penny had died in March and the reordering of patterns of existance and chattels, the dog needed a new home. Could we look after her? Take her for proper [...] July 25, 2010 | In praise of Blotanical.com with animal chorus on the pigs back As a self-confessed techno-phobe and luddite, I feel I am on the pig’s back with lovely www.blotanical.com. It’s the website for people blogging about gardens all over the world. Can’t quite think why this new hobby of blogging came upon me. Computers? URLS? RSS feeds? All a dense fuzz in the brain’s [...] July 4, 2010 | Drat that bracken The first world war turned bracken into a serious menace. The exodus of agricultural workers from the land and with that, gone was the regular cutting back of this plant. Pteridium aquilinum. Long out of print, ’Weeds and Aliens’ by Sir Edward Salisbury, tells it straight: “one of the more noxious weeds of better drained [...] June 27, 2010 | Elephants and green walls These elephants are made of fibre-glass, have been painted by artists and are to be auctioned by a charity, Elephant Family, that is out to save the Asian elephant. Asian elephants are much better behaved than African ones. (who undoubtedly need saving too as they have fallen foul of the poacher for their tusks and [...] June 21, 2010 | Hurray samphire time again The question is: which is better with dressed crab – this or asparagus? Perhaps this, as every time the dogs get into the veggie patch, they chomp the asparagus tips. The samphire on the foreshore – we walked out there this evening – got left alone. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d561′).each( function(e) [...] |
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