Category: Nature

Baily’s Cream

The Times this morning has a picture of the Holcombe Hunt in Lancashire. Not to be outdone BB roving reporter, Angela C-C, took this picture; better composed than the one in The Times and reminiscent of a Munnings.

Black Redstart

This is a Black Redstart. It is about the same size as a Robin.

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A Corpse on the Roof

  According to the Prime Minister, Peppa Pig is the key to unlocking productivity in the UK. Bertie isn’t.

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On the River Bank

The London plane trees in Bishop’s Park provide a shady walk along the Thames upstream of Putney Bridge. The oldest were planted in 1893.

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Ragwort Revisited

Five years ago I was concerned about the spread of ragwort in Margravine Cemetery: Yellow Menace. Now the facts have changed and I have changed my mind.

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All Things Must Pass

This pair of lions carved of stone are at the base of the Queen’s Tower at Imperial College. Along with the rather more substantial tower they are the last vestige of the Imperial Institute.

June Gleanings

I find it some consolation that whatever indignities the Catholic Church has suffered in recent years, it retains its pre-eminence in the art of casuistry. (Letter in The Times from Sir Richard Stagg about the Prime Minister’s marriage at Westminster Cathedral) 10th September 2012. The idea of His Blondness with a finger on the nuclear button… Continue reading June Gleanings

Old Hammersmith

This is what I saw yesterday at the top of the escalators on the first floor of Charing Cross Hospital. It was commissioned “for the benefit of elderly patients” and being one myself I drank it in, so to speak.