Strangely Perfect

My mate ‘Zippy Len’ pointed me to these strange creatures.  Looking half-pig, half-sheep, they could be called shigs or peeps but are actually curly-haired pigs!  They are rare – in fact they nearly died out.  They belong to Pig Paradise Farm, the home of all rare breeds! (contact them here.) Maybe after looking at these, [...]

Don’t just sniff and worry. Don’t sweat. Don’t worry about Death by Flu. Instead, worry about: “Death by Powerpoint”! (see http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/London%20Councils/090127sellwooddraft.ppt) Or try Death by Portable Document Format! http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/924/0054555.pdf (written in 2007) Author’s note: Some bits are okay actually, especially the picture of Maiden Castle.  But if you do get the flu, stay in, don’t [...]

Why Economists and Scam Merchants are the Same Today’s news that the cost of the global credit crunch meltdown has quadrupled in a year should come as no surprise to followers of the GoogleTreasureChest scamsters.  See : Meltdown losses of ‘$4 trillion’ Last year, the highly salaried ‘professional’ economists at the IMF, many having spent [...]

Humphrey Hawksley in an article on today’s BBC News website has reported the (blindingly obvious, some might say) results of a 25-year American study into the effects of air pollution (specifically vehicle and industrial) on life expectancy. City air pollution ‘shortens life’ Basically, it’s bad! I live next to an A-class road, busy with holiday [...]

My dwarf cherry tree, supplied by Alice;  and my bell. This tree has been so fantastic this year that I’ve taken about a million pictures of it.  Every time I look at it, it’s better than the last time.  So I took a photo with someone standing in front of it…. Bell by Buddhism Bloke [...]

Watch the Ears!  Watch the Ears!

Following on from the Google Street View roll-out, two issues have popped up – again; People’s privacy on the streets vis-a-vis a commercial organisation like Google People’s privacy on the streets vis-a-vis government organisations like local councils For the first, the self-appointed guardian “Privacy International” have made an official appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office [...]

Highlighting the Differences in Public Health provision, the Attitudes to Death and Responsibilities of the State and the Individual to Public Welfare. The title is the biggest bit – trust me. Introduction This takes us from today’s news from America and the Duffy’s Cut project to a tiny hamlet in Northumberland, England, called Throckrington. Duffy’s [...]

These are a few pictures taken with my new Panasonic Lumix TZ5.  They show the first real flowers in the back garden, some daffodils across the canal and some ethereal and dynamic shots from down the canal that demonstrate the effect of sunlight on reed beds with the sun for and against you!  There are [...]

Death Search Four men, old enough and with enough experience of life to be able to look after themselves, have gone missing in Loch Awe.  Two have been found dead and the search is still on.    This of course is tragic, but I can well understand their situation. Colony Holiday When I was 16, [...]

Boom Boom South Hook Coast Path: Pembroke To Amroth Boom Boom John Lee Hook  …er Boom Boom Port Accident ….. what price safety?

A few test pictures using the “Starry Sky” setting on my Panasonic Lumix TZ5.  The pictures were done using a tripod at the three timer settings  that are inbuilt for that setting; 15s, 30s & 60s.    The sky was quite brightly lit due to some thin mist acting as a reflector for the urban lighting.

Currently there is an undersea eruption happening at the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga.  Check out the video above which was filmed by some tourist/fishing types in a little boat who went to look at it.    Then wait until about 0:45 as a white cloud starts boiling towards them and they shout, [...]

Data, and Trust in Science The Burden of Proof is on Science but ’twas ever thus…. The arguments from climate change sceptics ultimately hinge around the general perception of aloofness and intangibility that hang round science and scientists.  The trouble is that some people are basically innumerate and no amount of trying will make them [...]