An advantage to knowing someone that works at Parliament is that you can get some behind the scenes tours that are not usually available to the public. Today, I got to visit the House of Lords archives and conservation studios. Today’s visit coincided with the last(-ish) chimes from Big Ben, the bell being taken out …
Category Archives: Photographic
How dirty is your mug?
DG asks “How dirty is your mug?” I think mine is a good 7 on his scale. I also think my lab desk probably rates highly too.
Perseids meteor shower
I watched the meteor shower from the field at the Secret Nuclear Bunker where a group of us were camped doing radio stuff including bouncing signals off the ionized gas trail left by burned up meteors (meteor scatter). I captured this time-lapse video which does include a few meteors as well as a pass by …
A pretty visitor to the garden
A nice Garden Tiger (Artica caja) spotted this morning on the grass in the garden. It’s a widespread moth, strikingly colored and patterned. I’ve not seen the larval form on any of its likely food plants, so have no idea if there will be more appearing soon.
Mountain! Ben Nevis 2014
Just a quick look around the top of Ben Nevis in summer 2014.