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Vapour trail light
Further evidence (see below) that vapour trail light is my favourite sort of light: That photo was photoed by me in June 2008. In Quimper I think, but if not in Quimper, then somewhere close. I had...
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Spring in the air
Yes, I and a friend took a stroll around Stoke Newington this afternoon, and despite the drabness of the weather, spring was in the air. And as if to confirm Spring will indeed be with us very soon, if...
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Something I forgot to mention
There you were, waiting for a good time to con your way past the front door of my block of flats by saying you’re the postman, to climb my stairs, to bash in my front door and to plunder my classical...
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An historic weather forecast
I have no idea what it was like storming a Normandy beach, on June 6th 1944. I also don’t really know how they do weather forecasting, but in recent years, because of being an amateur photoer, I have...
View ArticleSo it really is cold – good to know
Bishop Hill: A week away from midsummer and I think I’m going to have to light the stove. Cold, wet and miserable. And I now have a headache. Worse, the cricket world cup is proving to be a huge...
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This is not a Cape Sugarbird
I’m talking about this: What chance does Western Civilisation have if people get basic facts like this wrong? It’s a Malachite Sunbird. This is a Cape Sugarbird: This being a South African bird...
View ArticleRich people look after exotic animals better than poor people do
Because they can. Human Progress Dot Org: Why are wolves increasing all around the world, lions decreasing and tigers now holding steady? Basically, because wolves are in rich countries, lions in poor...
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Surrey v Middlesex T20: Out of the sun in Bedser Upper
On July 23rd, Darren and I went to the Oval to watch Surrey lose to Middlesex. I photoed signs, and I photoed a drone, and that was about the half of it, if by that you mean about 0.5% of it. As...
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AAArt
I like photos that look like abstract art but which are really of something real. To quote myself (underneath the August photo there, of London Bridge station seen from above): I tend not to admire...
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Continuous Particulate Monitor
I love the internet. I was in Oxford Street the other day, and photoed this gizmo, once the whole thing, and then a photo of the letters and numbers on the gizmo: I love the internet because I could...
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Tardigrades on the moon?
Definitely the best “other creature” in the news during the last few days: It looks like a space monster in a movie, from the far off time before special effects became perfect and boring, and...
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Natoor?
“Natoor” because the word is “Nature”, but in French. Ever since I did a post here mentioning the plan for a Disneyland London, Twitter has been regularly Twittering me a picture of this new Disneyland...
View ArticleSteve Stewart-Williams on how looking at other animals helps us understand...
The Nurture Only view being, in this case, the claim that all the differences in behaviour and attitude – with regard to such things as casual sex, attaching importance to physical sexual allure, and...
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Trees and other Things
I’ve not being doing much out-and-abouting lately. But yesterday the weather looked good and I managed a photo-expedition. My odyssey was a familiar one. I walked past the Channel 4 TV headquarters...
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Ferrari sighting
While out-and-about on other business further in the middle of London even than my home is, I photoed this little Thing On Wheels: This was in Bedford Street (as you can just about make out), which is...
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Another pair of Egyptian geese
Blogging as I just was about romantically linked birds, I recently transferred a posting about a couple of geese, which I did on Christmas Eve 2014, from the old blog to this blog, which was a big...
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Another dirty vapour trail
Yes, on a mostly sunny day in May 2015, to add to an earlier one: And actually, although rather fainter, there’s another one behind the big and obvious one. What this photo also shows is how this...
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Prague should build this shipwreck!
What do you reckon on this?: It’s a big Shipwreck Thing that some people are trying to build in Prague. My first reaction, when I first set eyes on the above fake photo last night, was horror. But now...
View ArticleQuite a lot of links to Steve Stewart-Willams creature tweets
Steve Stewart-Williams does great tweets, and his animal tweets are especially appealing. If you just want cute, there’s plenty of that. But if you want to tell yourself that you are also learning some...
View ArticleSplashdown for SpaceX
John Stossel: 2 Americans just landed safely after spending 2 months in space. 11 years ago, an Obama committee concluded that would take 12 years and cost $26 billion. Elon Musk did it in 6 years– for...
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