Monthly Archives: November 2019
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Posted: November 24, 2019Read more »
If You Want to Get Noticed Go Sculptural –
Artist’s Tribute to Nature
These days if you want to get noticed you go sculptural. Every man and his dog has heard of The Angel of the North near Gateshead, which is as tall as four stacked double-decker buses: Strange how we measure everything in buses. Take for example the six buses highs sculptures of the Kelpies the world’s largest equine sculpture. Located...
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Posted: November 10, 2019Read more »
Autumn Blues –
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Now I was going to the post office when I saw a little bump just outside the local tip, or should I say recycling centre? The rain was beating down and the young woman in the offending car was mortified to be in the wrong. The prospect of paper work and rocketing insurance costs no doubt made her feel like this, but this rotten weather was to blame and...
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Posted: November 04, 2019Read more »
And I Would Squawk 500 Miles -
The Squawkers are Coming, the Squawkers are Coming!
I was visiting friends in London and I heard this cacophony in the garden and when I looked out I saw green parakeets in a drove screeching and squawking in the trees behind the house. I couldn’t believe it but a few escaped birds had ousted the local avian wildlife and they were the dominant species in the area. They...
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Posted: November 04, 2019Read more »
Tolkein is Hobbit Forming-
That’s Ent- tertainment
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the Hobbit and Lord of the Ring films, or even read the books, but you are probably aware of the tale of the Hobbits and the story of the ring. Well in it some giant tree beasties meet the hobbits and as exemplars of the natural world help out the little folk. They were called ‘Ents’ and an elm tree in the Highlands...
