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Entries Tagged as 'Animals'
Okapi
June 13th, 2006 · Comments Off on Okapi · Life
Until I saw this story about scientists finding proof of Okapis in the wild in the Democratic Republic of Congo I did not realise they were particularly rare. I think this is because my father is interested in animals and one of my party tricks when I was a precocious child was to identify all […]
Busy Bee
May 30th, 2006 · Comments Off on Busy Bee · Life
I was absurdly pleased to be able to get some decent photos of a bee in the back garden this afternoon, while it was busy sniffing around Jayne’s chives. Even more pleased that, of a dozen attempts, six were very respectable. Given the way the little chap kept flitting from one flower to another I […]
Amsterdam
February 18th, 2005 · Comments Off on Amsterdam · Life
This week we are childless. Frankie has gone on a week’s ski trip with his school, and the two youngest have gone to stay with grandparents for half-term, so we decided to take a little break and went over to Amsterdam for a couple of days. After the experience of booking through eBookers I was […]
Tags: Animals·Aviation·Crawley·Family·Food·Gatwick·Holidays·Netherlands
Spiders
October 13th, 2004 · Comments Off on Spiders · Life
This plague of flies is a fairly recent phenomenon. Ever since I can remember, we have had spiders in this house, and I don’t just mean little money spiders: I am talking about the chunky ones with legs at least 3cm long. I don’t think a day goes by without me seeing at least one […]
Tags: Animals
Flies
October 13th, 2004 · Comments Off on Flies · Life
For the last few weeks we have been suffering a plague of flies. I had expected, or hoped, that with the weather turning cold and wet they would have disappeared by now but they are still everywhere. Whenever we have been shopping we have looked for fly spray but found none. Either the manufacturers have […]
Tags: Animals
What a relief!
August 2nd, 2004 · Comments Off on What a relief! · Work
I had been a bit worried about the possibility of turning up for work this morning and finding that cardboard box outside the door still, with a now-dead pigeon in it.
Tags: Animals
