I have to hold my hand up and admit that I have a bit of a phobia with spiders. I am a lot better than I used to be and I don’t mind if there is one in the room, even if it is scuttling across the floor close to me. I find spiders fascinating […]
Entries Tagged as 'Animals'
Two legs good, eight legs bad
September 25th, 2009 · Comments Off on Two legs good, eight legs bad · Life
Pigeon doping suspicions
September 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
While I find the idea of a carrier pigeon being faster than broadband attractive and very credible when it comes to trying to surf the web at lunchtime when everybody else in the building is doing the same, something doesn’t quite add up. According to the news story the pigeon flew the 60 miles between […]
Naked In The Rain
September 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on Naked In The Rain · Life
Young Rojo is in my bad books now. He has been trying the patience of the entire household for a while now, but I am ridiculously lenient with him and let him (literally) walk all over me. Tonight he came in when Chas got home, jumped on top of me, stuck his nose in my […]
Diamond Dogs
September 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Diamond Dogs · Life
I am still finding this story hard to believe: a man had a seizure and his dog called the emergency services on the phone. It sounds like an unlikely fluke but, apparently, the dog is specially trained to do that. To put this remarkable achievement into perspective, even after years of the police getting such […]
Hounds of Love
August 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Jane
Now that Skuds has got a name for his kitten (not a bad name – I hope it doesn’t get too confused about which name it is going to totally ignore….) I thought I would try to get a name for our newest family member. No rush mind since it isn’t really real and is […]
This House Is A Circus
July 29th, 2008 · 12 Comments · Life
When I got a text message from the Mrs. this afternoon that said “do you want a kitten?” I knew that it didn’t really matter what answer I gave because by the time I got home there would be an extra mouth to feed. Not that I mind. I like kittens. My only real worry […]
Shed-dweller
July 16th, 2008 · Comments Off on Shed-dweller · Life
While the kids’ bikes rust away in the garden I keep mine in the shed to protect it from the rain and damp, but there may be a flaw in this plan.  I’m not saying that our shed is damp, but when I took the bike out this morning I had to be careful not […]
Spiders
September 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
I have a funny relationship with spiders. I do have a bit of a phobia about them, particularly the big hairy-legged ones called George who strut across the room like they own the place, but I am getting better. I can now get quite close to them, and frequently do when I decide to take […]
Badger graphics
August 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
With all the to-ing and fro-ing to visit poorly relatives recently it made a change to go down to visit all the healthy ones tonight. My mother and sister both belong to a painting club and tonight they were having an exhibition in Southend to which we were invited. The place was even more packed […]
Sex in the back garden…
July 16th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
I have not been getting out and about with my camera much lately – but I hardly need to: its like a safari in the back garden. Having exhausted the possibilities of snail photography, and slugs and spiders, and snapping the flying ant invasion its now the turn of the unidentified red bugs who were […]
