A glimpse of Norfolk
24
Jul
Taken last week, in and around Wells-next-the-Sea.
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Pissing in morse code
13
Jun
In 1960, going on eight, I was a pupil at Ecclesfield Juniors, one of those stone built products of the big push on school building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the boys’ playground stood the boys’ … Read More »
On Richmond Hill
9
Jun
Email exchanges yesterday, apropos my references to a subset of transgenderism which claims sex to be a ‘spectrum’, suggest I have not made myself sufficiently clear. So let me try again: I do not deny the sufferings of transgender persons … Read More »
Lakelandscapes
6
Jun
Long Close Farm, looking southeast from the Powterhow Wood shore, across Redness Point on the southern end of Bassenthwaite. Shot from several hundred yards away, on a long telephoto lens, in the soft light of early morning. Derwentwater from Crow … Read More »
Attenborough this week
14
May
Top dog
25
Apr
Tebay, steel city house’s resident lakeland terrier, in relaxed mode.
Big cats
14
Apr
From Rostov-on-Don … And quiet purred the Don …
Sloe progress
10
Mar
Demand for a follow up to my sloe gin post of five months ago is now approaching denial of service attack levels. My public, insistent on a progress report, must be appeased. Just after nineteen hundred on the evening of … Read More »
Great tits of Attenborough
25
Feb
By far the commonest tit – in fact the commonest non water bird, period – in Attenborough is the blue tit. Here’s one snapped yesterday as I took advantage of the sunshine, and highest temperatures in many a month, to … Read More »
The Trent in spate
1
Feb
The weir at Beeston, snapped soon after our move to Nottingham in November 2018. See these gates? Their concrete platform is two metres above the river. In this next image, taken in late January this year, we can just make … Read More »