Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Stripes!

I like anything striped, I am particularly partial to stripy socks… but look at this magnificent stripy tail! He (or she) is a white crowned mangabeys; they communicate with each other by blinking their white eyelids. They come from west Africa and only a few thousand of them remain in the wild as they are hunted […]

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Lean!

Iron: Man… known as the Iron Man is a  statue by Antony Gormley, an artist known for the Angel of the North and many other figures made in a variety of materials. This leaning man can be found in Victoria Square, Birmingham. He is 20 foot tall, and this includes his feet which are buried beneath the pavement. He weighs […]

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