Weirdly one of the worst photos I have ever seen of a battered butterfly in a boring composition, unsharp and dull got a vote - what the hell is going on there Annie? Roger Sorry, I have just started photographing - not just butterflies but anything. I didn't ask anyone to vote for me and I didn't ...

The weather's put paid to much activity here - but I did see a brace of Small Torts geting battered about at lunchtime, and a few Large Whites visiting the baskets during the (very short) breaks between the rain

Martin wrote:

Annie wrote:
that was 30 minutes orgasming, not just 30 minutes doin'-the-do!

Yes...that's what I meant

Well then, like I said, leave you to it - plenty of time to go off and heat a frozen pizza or empty the cat's litter tray

Martin wrote:All the women I've been with got half an hour minimum, and I'd say that 30 minutes was a"quickie"

that was 30 minutes orgasming, not just 30 minutes doin'-the-do!

I can think of much more interesting things to spend half an hour doing. Watching Ray Mears' Wild Food, for instance.

I got this a few months ago http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/COLLINS-NATURE-GUIDES-BUTTERFLIES-OF-BRITAIN-EUROPE_W0QQitemZ220266006462QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item220266006462&_trkparms=72%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14.l1318 and have found it to be a great little book - slim enough t...

Dave, have you ever smelt an adult male lion? euuuuuuuuggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Plus, all that running around chasing after your food - far too much effort! :lol: Much better to come back as a creature that can find sex whenever it wants, where food is easy to come by, full of sugars and fats...

Half an hour? No wonder they spend a lot of their time lying down... And presumably this means there's a dedicated team of scientists somewhere who've stood with stop watches waiting for the poor piggies to, um, finish?Reincarnation as a beetle sounds much better - a nice life in the fresh air with ...

If you have a phone with internal GPS, like the Nokia N95 (which I own and am enjoying greatly) then you can purchase this bit of kit http://www.viewranger.com/vrproductinfo.php which will give you your OS grid ref positions as you move around. Not cheap (about £150 for the full shebang, less if you...

lots of Large Whites today at work, and I just rescued a Southern Hawker (I think) which had been trying to cop. with a VW Golf and ended upside down in a puddle. It's now drying out nicely on the hanging lobelia

Dear Points Of View I would like to complain about the BBC spending our licence fee on such fripperies as were shown on The One Show on 29th August 2008. I am not referring, of course, to the Purple Emperor banquet, which was of course an important scientific experiment carried out in controlled sur...

Just had my first Hummingbird Hawk Moth of 2008 around the hanging baskets at work - by the time I'd finished my phone conversation and run outside to have a clsoer look it had buggered off

The "Weekend" section of tomorrow's Telegraph will be running a feature on Matthew Oates and the Purple Emperor Project.

The Pentax Papilio came highly recommended to me by a butterfly watcher last week - I've been looking around the internet and you can get them for as little as £85

Very much enjoyed it - not condescending, and not seen through rose-tinted specs (ie, it rained. A lot.)

I've never been lucky enough to have a dog, though I have had cats and several rabbits, guinea pigs and fancy rats. I sob copiously when pets pass away, and in fact last night had a little sniffle when remembering dear Mittens the cat who died at 16 years old. I named several of the rabbits and guin...

In for a penny...

I'm entering this to read the critique it receives, rather than with any hope of getting votes



Speckled Wood taken at Combe Hill near Street on 12th July with a Kodak P880 digital bridge camera

Hello Zelda - I'm quite new as well, and I've found the guys and gals here to be really friendly and helpful

I used to keep lots of rabbits, too - no kids yet though!

I was driving round Somerset for most of yesterday - had two Gatekeepers in West Huntspill, A Red Admiral in Glastonbury, a Great Diving Beetle in flight near Street and another Red Admiral on Weston Super Mare sea front, while stuck in traffic - hope the poor little bugger didn't hang around, he mi...

padfield wrote:The modern question, of course, is this: If Dave had indeed been hit and injured by the rabbit, who would he have sued?

More to the point, would claims direct think he'd gone a bit bunny in the head?

one Small Tort and several Large White on the hanging baskets today, and one Holly Blue flying overhead

Get well soon, Angie!