Photo Hunt; Thankful

For healthy, lively grand children, I am thankful; For children making successes of themselves, I am thankful; For Buff, my wife and friend, I am thankful; For brooks and books, birds and butterflies, I am thankful.

I Am Curious

Often at 2am I lie awake and ask myself unanswerable questions. Such as, “Just how widespread is this poem and do I need to beware of a purple human tide with red highlights in just a few years.” So, two questions for the ladies who read the archive. Have you read this before? Is this [...]

Oh Dear!

BBC Quiz of the Week

Well done Quizzees. We have a new Queen of the Quiz, healing magic hands, who becomes the second multiple winner of the crown, while Puddock, nursemyra, and newcomer sledpress all recorded near misses with 6/7. As did I. While most entrants did well, alas, there were two who failed. Not miserably, but failed none the [...]

Friday’s Feathers

The Oakover River, 21 18 53.35S, 121 03 06.80E according to Google Earth. Dry for most of the year. In the middle of nowhere. Not quite in the desert for that is still 40Km away, yet away from anything remotely civilised. Here there is almost always still water. And birds. Here is a big blacky-blue [...]

Sex and Evolution

The Kimberley and Pilbara regions of North West Australia are proving to be a treasure trove for scientists. A team led by John Long, a paleontologist at the Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, identified embryos in extinct, jawed fish from a group called Arthrodira, the predominant members of the class Placodermi. Placoderms were bony, heavily [...]

Sky Watch Friday

Travelling East at sunset. Finally, close to home. It had been a long day driving yet something was distracting me. There was colour in my rear view mirror. The sun had set and all around was nearly dark.  I could smell dinner on the table and a cooling shower. Yet that colour kept catching my [...]

Cheese on the Moon

A group of astronauts are on the moon. They’ve been mining the surface, and have discovered that it really is made of cheese. One particular area of cheese that they’re quite interested in is a large vein of brie, and they’ve already been there twice, and collected samples to be returned to mission control. All [...]

Don’t Panic!

xkcd, of course

Which Horrible Affliction are You?

On a day in which the common cold is dominating what I used to call my life, when my throat is full of razor blades and my voice is a small croak, I found this little quiz. Which Horrible Affliction are you? Which Horrible Affliction are you? Congratulations, you’re rabies! Transmitted by rabid animals, you’re [...]

Senile Delinquent

A 71-year-old British pensioner has been fined more than $4,000 for rollerblading through a town square. Geoff Dornan was caught on closed-circuit television rollerblading through the main street in Ormskirk, Lancashire. The local council told the court that his skating was a nuisance and a danger to the public. In his defence, the pensioner said [...]

Dog Found

Lost

Salt and Pepper

Tuesday Tune

Another taste of Steeleye Span with the unforgettable Maddy Prior.