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Saw a henge!

We’re off to the Imberbus 2024 event, and as Stone Henge is kinda-sorta on the way, we stopped for a visit. The stones themselves haven’t changed much in the 25 years (almost to the day) since I was last here (parked up in a lay-by on the A303 either before or after the 1999 eclipse), …

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Posted byDavid16/8/202416/8/2024Posted inGeneral, Photographic, TravelTags: henge, history, Photographic, reviews, travel

Cherry picking

The cherries have been ripe for over a week, but today was the first chance we had to go picking. The train broke down at Tonbridge, so we took a cab to the farm. My tree, number 1909, hadn’t been totally ravaged by the local starlings, and we picked a good 5kg or so of …

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Posted byDavid6/7/202413/7/2024Posted incherries, fruit, Personal, PhotographicTags: cherries, days out, kent1 Comment on Cherry picking

Maybe fixed?

If this appears, then I’ve fixed the issue with posting from a mobile device. The fix was to add an application password and to set the mobile application to use that. I think I disabled the old XMLRPC way of doing things while trying to secure this site.

Posted byDavid1/7/2024Posted ingeeking, PhotographicTags: dragonfly, geekery, meta1 Comment on Maybe fixed?

Cherries

I love cherries. Not the big bright red ones you see at the market, those loosk great, but taste of nothing – or taste of green. I like a sharp, juicy cherry. Last year, and this year, Meagen has bought me a rental of a cherry tree for Christmas. Yesterday we went to see the …

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Posted byDavid14/4/2024Posted incherries, fruit, Personal, Photographic, photosTags: cherries, cherry, fruit, kent

Liverpool 2024

The first few days of 2024 saw me in Liverpool for the Anatomical Society winter meeting. I had a presentation in with Alan Boyde on the topic of developmental collisions in teeth. I’d heard on the news of floods, but the train journey north really highlighted the flooding, either side of the train line was …

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Posted byDavid7/1/20247/1/2024Posted inAnatomy, Photographic, photos, science, Travel

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