One person’s Mist…
When sorting some photos last night this picture – taken a few weeks ago on a very cold morning in Chichester harbour – came close…
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Daylight Robin
A robin’s trademark red breast has always struck me as one of nature’s less enthusiastic attempts at camouflage. We went for a family walk in…
The Many Faces of Chichester Cross
Chichester Cross is a slightly mysterious stone construction at the heart of my home town. It has been around for five hundred years or more…
GPS (Global Piglet System)
[] The worlds of technology, navigation and nature convened in a mildly surreal way over the past month. Satellite navigation development, like all things space-related,…
Sailing on a Friday
This weekend I came afresh across the notion that setting sail on a Friday is bad luck. I had heard this before of course, but…
Squid Lights and Starry Nights
I gave a lecture at the Clothworker’s Hall in the City last night. I think it went well, no rotten fruit or vegetables came my…
Leonardo’s Tree Compass
Leonardo da Vinci is among the great and the good to have noted that tree growth is not symmetrical, it is heavily influenced by the…
Hawaiian Tropic Moss
There are three words that you are unlikely to see together in the same sentence ever again. What is my excuse here? There is a…
An Oily Afterthought
My posting this morning started me thinking about sun tan lotions. They have such great names: Hawaiian Tropic, Ambre Solaire, Bronze Ambition, even Piz Buin.…