Thursday 3rd May 2018, 4.40pm (day 2,443)
Didn’t a creature looking like this once erupt out of John Hurt’s stomach? The end may be nigh.
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Category Archives: Flora/Fauna
Spiral on stone
Tuesday 1st May 2018, 8.15am (day 2,441)
Just hanging out. I sometimes feel it would be nice to spend a pleasant morning, as it was today, just chilling out in a sunny spot.
Blossom on May Day (nearly)
Monday 30th April 2018, 5.30pm (day 2,440)
OK, maybe I didn’t take the picture on May Day. But that’s when I’m posting it, so it still seems appropriate. Let’s hope spring is here to stay now.
Insisting it’s spring
Tuesday 10th April 2018, 12.20pm (day 2,420)
Back to cold, rainy weather. But if I keep posting pictures of spring perhaps when I look back I will remember this as a warm April morning. The blossom is out in ‘my’ courtyard at work, at least, but back in 2014 (for example) it looked like this in February. A sign of the lateness of the weather patterns this year.
Enjoying the sunshine
Monday 9th April 2018, 11.50am (day 2,419)
Hey, the sun was shining! And it was warm! Until the evening, anyway…
Excuse to break the run of what had been 18 days since the last time there was a morning shot, on 19th March. Even if today’s was only just in the morning.
Lambing season
Friday 6th April 2018, 12.40pm (day 2,416)
There was a time when I thought I would not get out on a Lake District walk in this Easter break but the weather seems to be relenting after the icebox that was March 2018. Today was dry and bright, but bloody windy. Still, the lambs are enjoying it, anyway. The mountain in the background is Skiddaw, at 3,053 feet the fourth-highest peak in England. If you would like to see more pictures from the day check out my other blog.
I also note that this is the 100th Lake District shot to appear on the blog.
Mathilda wants back in
Wednesday 28th March 2018, 12 noon (day 2,407)
Mathilda demands to be only the third animal to definitively make the blog three times (though Humph the heron has a case to have beaten her to it, if the various pictures do indeed depict the same bird). She looks annoyed at the neglect, and that at some point since her last appearance, her collar has gone. And she’s got a bit greyer, but then again haven’t we all.
Frog friends
Sunday 25th March 2018, 12.40pm (day 2,404)
A morning’s spring cleaning on the allotments revealed this colony of frogs living in an old plastic bath on one of our neighbouring plots. These two seem close….
Rodent in Tavistock Square
Thursday 22nd March 2018, 3.05pm (day 2,401)
I could have picked a photo to epitomise my day in London, which was spent entirely in one meeting room in the Friends’ Meeting House near Euston. A productive meeting generally, but not photographically.
So instead let’s go with the cute rodent…. Squirrel!
Buddleia bud
Thursday 15th March 2018, 10.55am (day 2,394)
I’m pretty sure this is the plant growing out of the wall down Keighley Road that becomes the purple spearheads of buddleia later in the year. Metamorphosis. I quite like both forms of it, actually.
Being 42 