Meet Tebay the Lakeland terrorist terrier. Eight weeks old and weighing in at three pounds ten ounces, his eight inch stature and length of twelve inches excluding tail make him pretty scary. You don’t wanna mess with this bruiser. On … Read More »
The Trent is swollen today … … and the nature reserve busy. Sloes earlier than usual. Egyptian geese. * * *
this post also features in offguardian * Russia and the West : The last two action-packed years (5862 words) On September 11, Russia expert Tony Kevin delivered an address to the Independent Scholars Association of Australia. The transcript was published ten … Read More »
If it weren’t so serious it would be amusing, the way so many Westerners, including some of my friends and family, react to my frequently checking in on what Russia Today has to say. It must be propaganda, right? (Subtext: … Read More »
Meanwhile in London, September 26, 2019 … Click on the above image for the full story. * * *
I am in many ways a fully paid up member of the liberal middle classes, even if I appear to have gone off the rails of late. Ours is an extreme world. How else describe one of such staggering and … Read More »
Thursday night wasn’t the first time I’d slept on the canoe, just my first time while on the water. These next two images – heavily Photoshopped, to show far more detail than I could make out at nine pm in … Read More »
Attenborough yesterday. The early autumn fruits are ready – apple and blackberry, elderberry, hawberry and rosehip. Horse chestnut even. While cabbage whites do floral cunnilingus, honey bees go deep stick. Everyone’s a winner. Red winged damselflies do it in the … Read More »
On the western edge of Bloomsbury, Conway Street is a four minute walk from Warren Street and busy Tottenham Court Road, and thirty seconds from elegant Fitzroy Square Garden. Here at number 2, close to the junction with Maple Street, … Read More »