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National Poetry Day, Lightship
One of the obvious places to film a person whose job is connected to light was at a lighthouse. I knew there wasn’t one of those around – but when I mentioned this on Facebook, amazingly, I was told by Dru Marland that there is a lightship in Bathurst Basin, Bristol Harbour. An email or …
A-Z Reflections
This is the fourth year I have taken part in the A-Z Blog Challenge, and I enjoyed it very much, as usual. Thank you to Arlee and all the other organisers and minions for their hard work. Here is my traditional little photo of my assistance dog in celebration of having finished again: This year has …
B is for Bees
Bees today! If there were no bees, there would be no crops, and humans would starve – they really do perform that important a role in life on earth. Here is a fabulous photo of a bumblebee by Matt Cornock on Flikr: Scientists believe that there were bees as long as a 120 million years …
B is for Butterfly tongue
. This is a macro photograph of the tip of a butterfly’s proboscis, or tongue. Who could imagine it? It was taken by Stephen S Nagy, and won the 2011 Nikon Small World Micrography Competition. Exquisite or what? . The Butterfly’s Tongue . A bright-embroidered path to drink, . flanked by gems, enticing, pink, . a colour …
Lola’s Gromitathon – the last one in Bristol…
As you know by now, Gromits have appeared all over Bristol, to raise money for Bristol Children’s Hospital. OH and I are going to donate to that appeal – BUT Lola is visiting each and every Gromit to have her photo taken to raise money for the charity she is trained by – Medical Detection Dogs. …
U is for Unexpected Cotton Rat
. The Unexpected Cotton Rat Lament . I am a cotton rat, and like a common rat I am yellow-toothed and fat – my good points are neglected, when crops are nibbled I’m suspected, it’s no joke the persecution to which we’re all subjected, there’s not a lot that’s unexpected about that. . I am …
T is for Tiger
I have posted this picture before – but not the blog. . Sumatran tigers are critically endangered. They live in the same forests as Sumatran orangutans, also critically endangered. 80% of the forests they live in have been cut down. There are only 400 of these tigers left. They are particularly interesting as they have …
P is for Paradox Frog
Paradox Frog . The paradox frog lives in lakes in the middle of South America. Unlike most frogs it stays in water most of the time and doesn’t just breed there. It doesn’t croak, it has a oink-y sort of a call; but this isn’t unusual, if they have a call, most frogs don’t croak, …
N is for Narwhal
Liz Brownlee . Narwhals are a type of whale, related most closely to the beluga – the long horn-like sword at the front of the males is actually a upper canine tooth that grows spirally out through their top lip. Scientists still don’t really know what they use it for – although there is one …
L is for Lion
. Mountain Lion . Not the thing but a way of saying it how a cat moves . like oil smoothed . golden treacle stretching down the tin . small, fastidious waves lapping . the first dark splashes of rain on pebbles . the slow wind of water from a tap . light flickering through …
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