Tag: misc

Our amphibious garden lodger basking among the tomato plants. Frogs still hang around…

Cricket on bladder senna pod

First harvest of homegrown cherry tomatoes, some look almost pink when plucked.

Has to be the almost the most obviously named plant ever – artichoke thistle. Assumin…

I labelled the stars, planets, and moon in my photo from t’other morning

I don’t often get up before dawn to take photos…but I happened to wake up, peeked o…

The hills are alive with the sight of Banksy, Devils’ Dyke, Sussex

Vango, they all go!

Another six-spot burnet moth from Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Snapped on a recent trip and gi…

Smoking in Aldeburgh

Messing about on the river @FergyCool

Party swans

Tempus non fugere

Party sunset @fergycool

Six-spot burnet moth on thistle, Aldeburgh Crag Path

Do you know how much Shakespeare you know without knowing it?

My marigolds

The Lode is high. Rampton Road bridge.

Did the Victorians envisage this as a resurrection machine for Prince Albert, akin to…

Had to call 999 just now for local incident. Got a paramedic, three fire engines and …

Summer in the city…yes, that city, on way home after #UKCSJ yesterday

Russell at the Royal Society. Bertrand, that is, not Brand.

The most boring of the chemical elements, noble, but unreactive, dull, lacks lustre, …

I am sooooo not walking the dog in this sheeting rain!

I sent a note to the council about a nasty pothole in the road outside our house via …

Another fungus to ID

Another fungus to guess.

Okay…what’s this one. Common and "scientific" name please.

An easy one to start…

Snake in the water…or slow worm?

I was five seconds too late to snap the mother as she ducked out of sight.

A snap from my archives, taken at the parade during Aldeburgh summer carnival in 2003…

Gnome-sweet-gnome

What was that about may and casting a clout?

Just paint it magnolia

Hare today…

Hey bud!

Hummingbird hawk moth, snapped by the pool in Tuscany back in August 2004 on a wonder…

What species is this spiky buzzer?

This is about as naked as one can get, I think. Probably won’t use it as my profile p…

An owl and her man

Saw a barn owl at lunchtime today hunting in between downpours. (Here’s one I shot ea…

Apparently, "tsunami" waves were causing a stir in Alabama this week. I sna…

For the skeptical who didn’t believe that black fleck was a gull against the moon…l…

This looks like a just-about-a-week-to-go-before-reopening Co-op store to me (photo b…

What did that pair have to say to each other, I wonder?

I wrote some new words for my Movember Blues song. If more people don’t start donatin…

Is there a charity that could leave a charity bag to collect all the other charities’…

Is my "tache" worth a donation to the Movember cause yet?

The moon, this morning.

A quick Matt montage. Plenty of time to donate to a good cause…

The Moon’s not a balloon…

Did I tell y’all I got the Mo’vember Blues? http://mobro.co/sciencebase

Sample of our home-grown sweetcorn…’twas delicious 😉

High-res panorama of Brightlingsea as viewed from the east end of Mersea Island

Our photos from FEFF11 feature in the autumn issue of the Fen Edge News – http://www….

A few onions to go with the golden zucchini?

Don’t know about the taste yet but they’re bright"

Can anyone ID this plant, dug up in a friend’s San Francisco backyard? Apparently, lo…

Facebook just alerted me to the fact that 49 of my Facebook friends live in Cambridge…

Recording at Abbey Road Studios yesterday with fellow Big Mouth singers, what a dream…

Iris in Triptych

First of this year’s Papaver orientalis. It’s always the orange ones that appear firs…

Wild garlic, blooming marvellous (snapped at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire)

Photographed in North-west Wales in April. Can anyone identify this wild flower?

So, this is our teenage wisteria, which after many years of tender, loving care final…

Wisteria hysteria – After 13 years of tender care, pruning and finger crossing, the w…

Sunset from the Sciencebase office

Got crocus?

Vive La France, hien?

Beautiful double rainbow over Cottenham right now, with a glowering sky and the sun s…

Not sure what the spider that created this web has been drinking, but mine’s a pint!

This is the view from my office window, right now…

I can haz sparrowhawk (thanks to Emily DeVoto for the idea)

From a slightly different angle, looking all meek this time…

My wife spotted this little beauty in our garden…alerted me and I shot it with a 30…

See if you can guess what this is. Anyone who attended the "conference" at …

Television evolution

My daughter ever-so-kindly generated a "wee mee" version of her Dad complet…

My choir Big Mouth and Vox Pop are singing a few pop and rock classics at Saturday’s …

Junior blackbird is nowhere to be seen this morning…mother is on the garden fence i…

Here’s a snap of the mother feeding (at last) the fledgling that doesn’t fly. I was t…

This little fella has been causing his blackbird mother all kinds of trouble in our b…

Sometimes it’s only in retrospect that you spot the humor or the art in a photo you t…