Friday, 9 April 2010

Spring lambs















Spring lambs in North Yorkshire.














'What are you staring at'?















Grub time.















This is actually a squirrel. It sneaked in there somehow.



















Lucky black cat and 'my' plant (well it's on my desk).














'My' windowsill complete with lucky pink cat, rubber fishy.

Around where I work















Kind of scruffy desk with Mickey, Goldfish inna bag, NHS cup.















That's the building I work in.

Saturday, 2 May 2009

Trippin' balls!


Strange flowers, unenhanced colours. Kind of trippy.

Little Frog


Pretty little frog, probably one of last years crop. Just sitting, not bothered by me. Tiny little guy.

Monday, 13 April 2009

Little tiny eeny weeny water snail


Along with the tadpoles there are lots and lots of tiny watersnails being active. Sorry about the reflection.

Sunday, 12 April 2009

Monday, 6 April 2009

Not a seat to be found


Greyhounds fart. A lot. They also take up a lot of room.

Sunday, 5 April 2009

More tadpoles!

Little baby tadpoles in my rather murky looking pond!
















They are growing so fast.












Just like mum and dad.

Sunday, 29 March 2009

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

Saturday, 28 March 2009


Pretty good eh? Just a week later.

Saturday, 21 March 2009

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!

Sunday, 21 December 2008

Saturday, 25 October 2008

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.

Monday, 1 September 2008

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.