A new excuse for being fat
In The Times, Giles Coren comments on the suggestion that obesity is caused by pollution!
Funny and worth reading.
Environment
The Gulf Stream came to a halt for ten days in 2004
The Gulf Stream is an ocean current that keeps Britain warm by dragging water northwards from the tropics Now scientists have revealed that a part of the Stream came to a temporary halt for ten days during November 2004. No one is quite sure what this means. Will it happen again? Is it a sign … The Gulf Stream came to a halt for ten days in 2004
Parsnip wins England’s ugliest vegetable contest
A horribly distorted parsnip has won the prize as England’s ugliest vegetable. The competition was created to challenge the idea that tasty fruit and veg must look perfect.
Red Squirrel Week
Excited to see a red squirrel in the garden this morning. It was being chased by more than a dozen sparrows. They have made the overgrown clematis their base and I expect they saw the squirrel as a predator. From 30th September to 8th October 2006 it’s Red Squirrel Week. This one was nine days … Red Squirrel Week
When cows attack (video)
MP4 version here (iPod compatible). Click through to my site for Flash video.
I had an eventful five hour walk this afternoon. This is a short extract from a much longer video that I’ll be making about it. I’m laughing about this but, with a calf on the track ahead of me, I wasn’t sure whether angry mum and dad and all their friends might be able to get out the field if they reached the corner before me.
There have been a few cases of walkers being trampled to death by cattle. Especially when there are calves: BBC report.
(Peter says: ‘get back to the city centre!’)
30 minutes of sunset in 30 seconds (video)
Download the Quicktime version here (or click through to the blog page for the Flash version).
I’m up at the house near the England/Scotland border. The back overlooks fields, hills and crags and has always been a prime location for some spectacular sunsets. I recorded 30 minutes of one tonight and then reduced this footage down to the 30-second-long time-lapse movie that you see here.
If you want the technical how-to-do-it…
A great spotted woodpecker outside my window (video)
Download the MP4 version here (or click through to the blog page for the Flash version).
Currently I’m in a little village near the England/Scotland border.
At 6am on Friday morning there seemed to be a lot of bird noise outside the window. I looked out and saw a crowd of sparrows and a male great spotted woodpecker (I know that because I looked it up on the RSPB website)
The first woodpecker I’ve seen in real-life. I was rather excited.
The window has that old-fashioned glass, which is why the video is a bit blurred.
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