Bits and pieces

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

Bits and pieces by Lois

Bird of Paradise

I love these flowers, strelitzia reginae, so exotic so extraordinary! They come originally from South Africa but they grow all over the world now. The name comes from Queen Charlotte, who was married to George III; she was Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and it’s from this these wonderful flowers got their name. Charlotte and George had a […]

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Watery gifts

In most shopping malls, garden centres, parks etc where there are ponds or running water it often seems people are encouraged to throw a coin in which will be collected later for charity. I’ve noticed all sorts of other watery places, out in the middle of nowhere sometimes, where people do the same thing… this must […]

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Wavefront direction change

Apparently, reflection is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated… I didn’t know that, and I’m not sure I understand it now that I do know it!! Maybe if I hadn’t given up science in the […]

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