Making dandelion wine is a messy business; First you have to collect ~400 grams of flowers, then you have to separate out the petals: Then boil them all up with sugar, raisins and some orange peel: And then hope it ferments into something nice. Fingers crossed, that in six months to a year, we’ll have …
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Going back to work on the 4th of January might be enough to darken anyone’s spirits, the mornings are dark enough, but come the 4th dawn will be even darker for us here in London. A partial eclipse will have the moon covering up the rising limb of the sun, the uncovered portion will still …
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I dug out an old school book, from way back when I was 8-ish. Here’s a look at the random stuff I wrote about back then. I was an electronics geek even back then… And a consummate storyteller. I hadn’t quite grasped the finer points of evolution though. And while I now love spiders, I …
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It’s a flying ant day here in London. The parks and pavements have been covered in large, brownish, winged & wingless females looking for somewhere to start a new colony. Winged garden ant female after nuptial flight. Wingless female garden ant, after nuptial flight. Stubs of wings visible on second body segment. Some of the …
At a visit to the LWC today, I saw a heron stalk, catch and eat a mouse-thing. Luckily I had the camera. The Stalking. The Catch. The Payoff. And swallow.
