Bits and pieces

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

Buff tip moth

We saw this moth perched on our window sill as we set off to go on a visit. I looks just like a broken off bit of twig, and that is its camouflage! it is called a buff tip moth and apparently is common throughout the K. It must be very good at disguising itself […]

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Transformed

A hundred years ago this tranquil water would have been a filthy toxic brew; it would have been full of the foulest rubbish, industrial waste, effluent… it would have reeked. The air would have been full of smoke; smoke from the factories and hills, smoke from the trains transporting goods to and from the docks, […]

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Going up

We were walking towards a foot bridge we have crossed many times when we heard a beep-beep-beep-beep, and insistent warning sound. Then we noticed…. the bridge we’ve walked across so many times… was going up!It went up, and up and up, until there was enough room for small ship to pass beneath  

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