Tag Archives: Pictures

A trip to Oxford

Posted on 25 August 2010 by Himself

As we both had a day off, a rare coincidence, we went to the station…

and caught the first train that turned up; which took us to OxfordW.
We went for lunch at the Pieminister place in the covered … Continue reading →

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Spot the difference

Posted on 22 August 2010 by Himself

Martine recently returned with some of her sister’s home grown HypergiantW tomatoes which are a little larger than mine :-/

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Cimy Header Image Rotator and a Twenty Ten Child Theme

Posted on 1 August 2010 by Himself

The previous post about rotating the header images in the Twenty Ten theme has been quite popular

but it was bad advice because as soon as you update your WordPress and/or theme files your changes are overwritten and lost. The … Continue reading →

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Dragonfly: almost emerged

Posted on 10 July 2010 by Himself

We spotted a dragonfly trying to emerge from its nymph skin but the nymph had not attached itself securely to a reed….

…and so it struggled to free itself…

Get the Flash Player to see this video.

var swf = new SWFObject(“https://media.dreamhost.com/mp4/player.swf”, “mpl”, … Continue reading →

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Me (not) Mobile?

Posted on 30 May 2010 by Himself

Have just enjoyed the 60 day trial of Mobile Me. Having a house full of Macs which will be joined, I do not doubt, at some time by an iPad all that syncing and sharing stuff is just the job. … Continue reading →

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Dug

Posted on 21 April 2010 by Himself

The patch of garden sometimes euphemistically known as the vegetable plot has been abandoned since the flood three years ago. Somewhat overgrown it was broken up and turned over and then cleared and levelled and is now returning to a … Continue reading →

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Ciggies and Stars

Posted on 15 March 2010 by Himself

More light free pictures, with a 60 second exposure, straight from the camera without any tweaking/Photoshopping. They are large: width=1500+ pixels 100KB+ downloads…
I thought the ciggie would leave more of a continuous trail. The lighting effect is low level … Continue reading →

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We are here

Posted on 25 November 2009 by Himself

The All-Sky Milky Way Panorama is an impressive bit of stitching.

Created by Dr. Axel Mellinger from 3000 images

A large interactive version is available.

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Emergent Dragonflies

Posted on 31 July 2009 by Himself

Just missed a couple of dragonfliesW emerging from their larval skins and could not get close enough for a good picture.
I did manage to collect an abandoned skin once they had departed.

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Clematis

Posted on 10 May 2009 by Himself

The old clematisW plant is slowly strangling the even older shed into submission; or perhaps it is the plant that is holding it up. You do not get the full flowery effect from the webcam so here are a … Continue reading →

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