I spent a bit of time about a week ago, dissecting a passion fruit seed pod. Gilbert dissects a bird and finds eggs forming and food in its crop. I don’t think I could dissect a bird. I can remember one Rural Studies lesson at school where the teacher was going to dissect a rabbit.Continue reading “2073 – Letter to Steve XXIV”
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2072 – Put yourself out there
i’ve beeen going on a fair bit recently about vlogging, you might reasonably ask why? There is a youtuber, Rob the Maritimer, click his name to see his channel. Rob has set up a community, called Creators Cove, and issued a challenge to his 117,000 followers. Over a period of four weeks, issue three “longContinue reading “2072 – Put yourself out there”
2070 Messing around
Those passion fruits look almost good enough to eat, don’t they? I won’t of course, but I am keeping an eye on them, and if they start to swell or drop, I’ll have another one to disect. Next year, I want to watch the whole process from budding – I missed that bit this year.Continue reading “2070 Messing around”
2066 – Letter to Steve XXIII – Butterflies & Passion Fruit
Dear Steve Gilbert mentions Guernsey lizards being introduced at Oxford but not breeding. Is that the case? If so, are we lucky that we weren’t overrun? For how much damage do we blame people from the 1600’s onwards for the introduction of species from overseas that were incompatible with the UK? Witnessing the migration ofContinue reading “2066 – Letter to Steve XXIII – Butterflies & Passion Fruit”
2062 – u3a IGO – Astronomy From Deep Space to Binoculars
Today, it was the turn of the u3a Interest Groups Online – Astronomy to grab my attention. There were a good 12 or 15 people on the Zoom call. Whilst I didn’t know much about the backgrounds of any of the people, I’m sure there was at least one member of the Royal Astronomical SocietyContinue reading “2062 – u3a IGO – Astronomy From Deep Space to Binoculars”
2058 – In the shop
I volunteer, normally on a Friday afternoon, in a local charity shop. I got asked if I would do today, Saturday, as well. I said yes to help out (I don’t know how to say that without making me sound noble for doing that), but it’s not. I made it quite clear that my offeringContinue reading “2058 – In the shop”
2053 – The Retirement Plan
It’s 6 months and 11 days since I retired. Before retiring, I did what I like to do, and that is draft a retirement plan. I think at the 6-month point it’s reasonable to have a review, and do the usual thing of looking at what has and hasn’t gone well. I think what I’llContinue reading “2053 – The Retirement Plan”
2052 – Letter to Steve XXI – Perhaps some introspection?
Dear Steve The mistake that I have made with tonight’s Letter to Steve is that I have not done very much with it, after a rather intense period of conversing with my assistant on Monday. We had quite a wide-ranging discussion, starting mostly with how I discovered Gilbert White. Summarised: driving north on theContinue reading “2052 – Letter to Steve XXI – Perhaps some introspection?”
2051 – A bit of Frustration
I was sitting in the chair under the hut awning. We were both admiring the garden, but what grabbed my attention wasn’t really the garden it was the spider webs. I have no idea how many times I’ve said in my blog that I don’t like spiders; I am, in fact, arachnophobic. I’m afraid ofContinue reading “2051 – A bit of Frustration”
2049 – Vlogging
I don’t know how many years I’ve been saying that I want to vlog, but I never quite knew what to vlog about. Over the last few weeks, though, I’ve come to a bit of a realisation. It might sound a bit odd, but I think it accurately represents things. Now, the one thing thatContinue reading “2049 – Vlogging”
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