Category Archives: Flora/Fauna

May 21 2012
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Wild garlic

Sunday 20th May 2012, 2.15pm (day 269)

Wild garlic, 20/5/12

I’ve totally discovered this plant (also known as ramsons) this year, thanks to Joe, as it happens. I sort of always knew it was there but he was shown it on a school trip and the fact that you can just pick it up and eat the leaves from the ground – and they taste delicious – appealed to him; and to me, too. And it’s lovely in salads. Or the stems gently fried. And free. And it grows everywhere.

Just imagine if you could actually subsist on this stuff. They’d find someway to privatise it, for sure. I always think the same about blackberries, another lovely free food.

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May 09 2012
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Great tit, Nyborg beach

Wednesday 9th May 2012, 8.05pm (day 258)

Great tit, Nyborg, 9/5/12

So here I am in Denmark, the 6th country to feature on this blog so far – the others being, in order, UK, Finland, Norway, Russia and the Netherlands. (There will be at least one more this year, as I’m off to the US in July.)

The bridge in the background is called the Størebaeltsbroen (Great Belt Bridge) and it links the islands of Sjaelland and Fyn; I came over it earlier on a train from Copehagen airport to Nyborg. There’s not much to do in Nyborg, so this evening I just went for a walk on the beach and photographed great tits. As one does, on beaches.

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May 08 2012
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Black cat on Keighley Road

Tuesday 8th May 2012, 6.10pm (day 257)

Black cat, 8/5/12

Is this good or bad luck? I can never remember. Check back in a few days, and I’ll let you know.

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May 07 2012
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Cragg Vale churchyard

Monday 7th May 2012, 11.45am (day 256)

Cragg Vale churchyard, 7/5/12

a.k.a. ‘Lament for a Lost Spring’… Sorry to wax lyrical, it’s probably just the result of spending the day in a church selling piles of 2nd hand books to bargain-hungry pensioners.

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May 01 2012
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Hebden Bridge

May Day blossoms

Tuesday 1st May 2012, 8.45am (day 250)

May day blossoms, 1/5/12

The weather was not wet, nor that cold, today, but it was so dull. So to cheer me up and make things feel more springlike, here are some pretty blossoms for May Day.

It’s also day 250 of the blog, so I have made some new additions to the ‘Best of the Rest’ page.

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Apr 23 2012
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Portrait, Stranger

Pigeon feeding, Manchester

Monday 23rd April 2012, 4.45pm (day 242)

Pigeon feeding, 23/4/12

I’m in the middle of what is, for me, quite a long run of days without going anywhere in particular. So I have to find photographic succour in Hebden Bridge and Manchester, familiar territory but there’s plenty to see if you look around.

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Apr 21 2012
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Steep Fields Steps, Hebden Bridge

Saturday 21st April 2012, 2.05pm (day 240)

Steep Fields steps, 21/4/12

This staircase-cum-alleyway leads down the side of our allotment (which sits behind the hedge to the right). It’s a lot steeper than it looks on this photograph, and a tiring climb which is probably why this cat is doing the sensible thing and just chilling. After a very busy – and mentally confusing – week for me, I know how it feels; I did as little as possible today.

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Apr 20 2012
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Pub door and duck

Friday 20th April 2012, 3.10pm (day 239)

Duck outside pub, 20/4/12_low-res

This whole line of ducks took it upon themselves to saunter up the main street of Hebden Bridge today: sort of like we used to do while at primary school, to dash through the secondary school campus now and again on the way home and feel dead hard about it. I was too slow with my camera to capture more than this one, but never mind.

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Apr 18 2012
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In the incubator

Wednesday 18th April 2012, 6.05pm (day 237)

Baby chicks, 18/4/12

Awww. These chicks hatched today, in an incubator located in Joe’s after-school club.

Incidentally, this is only the second photo of the whole blog taken on a camera other than my Fujifilm Finepix JZ which has taken all the other 234 or whatever-it-is pictures. The first one was when I borrowed the Nikon for my ‘professional development’ photo shoot in the woods with Joe. This one was on a very basic camera borrowed from the school, because I broke the cardinal rule – ALWAYS take the camera. Really. Always. You don’t think you’ll see something worth photographing when you pick the kid up from school? Wrong.

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Apr 14 2012
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Landscape

Worm casts, Morecambe Bay

Saturday 14th April 2012, 11.00am (day 233)

Worm casts, 14/4/12

From England’s steepest and highest points yesterday to one of its flattest, lowest expanses: and all only a couple of dozen miles away. I like these little worm casts (though I am sure my parents will remind me of some long-buried beach holiday of my toddlerhood in which I was terrified of this kind of thing); a kind of natural sculpture. Or possibly just untidiness.

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