Yep, if someone can come up with something that we haven't seen a hundred times before. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn.

As a non photographer you could view my opinion in one of two ways; either utterly impartial, or not entitled to an opinion at all so go away. However, I do take a great degree of pleasure in looking at the photographs on this website so here's my two penneth: Close-Up, Camouflage, and Early Stages ...

susie wrote:How many of you have a cafe au lait birthmark?

Show me yours first Susie...

millerd wrote:Let's harmonise with the rest of Western Europe.

Now you're starting to put me off David...!

Felix.

My preference would be to put the clocks forward two hours this March, and then continue with back and forth Spring and Autumn as normal.

The result would be maximisation of daylight during hours of activity for the majority of people in the country.

Felix.

David M wrote:Christ, according to that I'm borderline Asperger's!!

Nurse!

But it's clearly a load of old crock.

Felix.

Susie wrote:I also wonder how many of the lovely ladies on here are male brained (rather than gender reassigned) and also how many people are within the autistic spectrum.

Dare to take the test here

Felix.

The plus side is that my 'One Ton' can carry just that...

It is 88 inches of pure leaf-sprung loveliness. I have them in other colours and sizes should that please you.

Invocation to a Kingfisher Come as a rapier thrust of hope, a lightening flash to stretch my eyes; an alleluia shout of praise, Te Deum-feathered to surprise. You commandeered Our Lady’s cloak from Raphael’s Nativity; seized jewelled chalice, gilded cope; took fire and sand; Ionian sea. Did windows...

Tip-top choice of cinematic brilliance there Zonda, Lynch has yet to produce anything that is less than first class celluloid enjoyment of the highest order (apart from 'Twin Peaks Firewalk With Me' which was shite).

I have until now underestimated how cool you are.

Felix.

I see from the Hampshire BC website that a Painted Lady has been spotted (on the 14th). I assume this has blown in, but I would have thought the temperature hasn't been high enough to sustain it throughout the lengthy trip it must have undertaken. So far this year in Cornwall, around seven Painted ...

Kwality het bug action.

is not all doom and gloom however (I am not condoning the continued extraction of peat of course, just injecting a little positive vibe) as anyone who has visited Shapwick Heath, Westhay Moor, and the Avalon Marshes will understand. I recall well when I was a youngster that the entire area was peat ...

It would be a waste of time going along then Jack.

We covered this topic a while back. As you'd expect, feelings ran high.

It may surprise you to know, Chris, that BC run training courses in how to prep and mount moth genatalia slides as part of the 'Moths Count' initiative. This, of course, means retaining the sppecimen.

Felix.

Peat based compost is not sustainable I'm afraid. Sorry John, but I think that peat based products should be so expensive as to greatly reduce the quantity sold; the theory being that as a result of the significant cost, only people who really need peat (such as orchid enthusiasts of which there are...

Are you ok Susie? the only reason that I ask is you don't look so good in your new avatar...

I wonder if rabbits is the real reason though. I have heard of farmers digging up ancient hedges because they can get a government grant for planting new hedgerows. That's an interesting thought Susie. Would the grant, I wonder, cover the entire cost of grubbing out, replanting, and the associated ...

Nick, I hesitate to say this because I don't want to ruin the moment :lol: , but I think that we have found something upon which we agree, dare I say 100%...! 'The countryside' is (in this country at least) pretty much one hundred percent man made. It is a working, living, breathing organism fashion...