Yippee! 1st tadpoles this year. Little brown flat things just under the water. Don't look like much, do they?

Pretty good eh? Just a week later.

2009's Frog Spawn

Yay! This year's frog spawn in my pond. I feel we should follow it's progress. There is a huge amount of it, the tadpoles are going to be swimming shoulder to shoulder this year!

Graphs of interest.

more music charts

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Scenery and stuff

Scenery in Westmorland. Taken from up a hill. I nearly died.













Curious little sculpture. Can you see the smiley faces?













Hills. Clouds. Moors.

Bacon. Oh how I love you, dear old bacon

Bacon butty eaten at the Grizedale Forest visitor centre. Note interestingly camouflaged moth on the table top to the left.














Slightly different perspective.













Within. BBQ sauce. Damn right.

Post something cheerful

A bacon sandwich, with tomato sauce, yay!














Looking down Holy Loch at sunset.


















Oh no, autumn already? (Genuine pic, no shop)












Landscape, dominated by Pendle Hill.














Silly dog, upside down and wearing glasses.

Haworth Graveyard

Haworth is a pretty town in West Yorkshire, once the home of the Bronte family. Their home was the Parsonage, sitting just above this graveyard. Most of the graves are Georgian or Victorian, although the Bronte's have a vault in the church.

As you can see, it isn't the most cheerful of places! It is seriously gothic, must be pretty spooky at night.















Standing room only.










Brutal reality of Victorian life. Children died with appalling frequency and parents often feared becoming close to them, knowing that a percentage wouldn't survive. This particular memorial sticks out. Joseph and Elizabeth lost seven of their children in infancy. I assume, apart from being devastated by their terrible loss, they accepted this as being a normal part of life. A great many of the grave stones in the church yard tell similar stories to this.














A celebration of human mortality.

Cakes.














Cherry blossom.












Dog wearing glasses. Peculiar flash effect on eyes.













Negligence.