Ludd

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• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 34 minutes

  

  Here’s an angle that’s not right, just revealed by renovation work. Presumably whoever slept in the room straight ahead was fed up with someone stumbling into their room and peeing on them in the middle of the night.

• In the news

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day

  

  In the Bucks Herald just retrieved from under a carpet here, from 12 December 1974

• Insects and Spiders

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 5 hours

  

  Neither the insects nor the flower need any comment, but I thought this was another nice example of insects not understanding colour wheels.

• Insects and Spiders

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 5 hours

  

  I think that’s true - they have clever tricks such as imitating the movement of a fly trapped in their web, also nicking other spiders’ dinner. I read somewhere that Pholcidae sit at the top of the bug food chain.

• Insects and Spiders

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 6 hours

  

  The clearing out of half our house has made some of its residents homeless. This spider is carrying its brood to safety, and the smaller one is supervising a crèche.

• Insects and Spiders

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 4 hours

  

  I think it might be a hornet hoverfly

• The Bird Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 4 hours

  

  Yes, it’s close to where I live and it is pretty good, I think. Lovely huge flocks of lapwings and golden plovers, plentiful raptors, hares, buntings and loads of ducks.

• Stars / Astronomy

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 7 hours

  

  Probably easier to see further north, but clouds are a bit of a problem!

• Stars / Astronomy

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 10 hours

  

  Properer picture

• Stars / Astronomy

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 18 hours

  

  Highly visible from here right now with no optical aid!

  Here’s a mobile phone shot of a 3.2 sec exposure as seen on the screen of my camera. I went out at about 1am thinking it would be a long wait, but there it was as I walked down the street, looking just like a storybook comet.