Entries tagged "royal"

Tree Lichens and Royalty

2012-05-11

  -------------------------   In these four pictures we are looking at the same beech tree. See if you can work out which way you are looking in each picture. If you hover your mouse over each picture it should give you the answer. If it has been a bit quiet on the blog recently, it's because it has been a very busy time for the last…

Good Day Out for the Missus

2008-07-09

HRH the Duke of Edinburgh was kind enough to take time out to present me with a Royal Institute of Navigation Award this afternoon. At the reception afterwards he spent a little time chatting with me and a lot longer in deep conversation with Mrs G. He was charming, funny and 'sparkly' apparently, whatever that means.