Meant to post this yesterday but started waffling about other stuff. Anyhow, I can't remember the last time I filled out a meme. This one is a bit bizarre - I can't work out the point of it. The questions seem to come from nowhere. Values based on...? If someone knows, I'd be grateful. Apparently, you're more likely to be taller than 7ft than ( Read more... )

I was very enchanted by this week's local story of the little girl who found the fossilsed spine of a wooly rhino.

Apparently they 'roamed the area' - I feel a bit stupid, but I hadn't really thought of ice age animals in Britain being really enormous like that. I guess as the biggest thing to be found in the wild now would be something like a ( Read more... )

Something else entirely...

( My random, slightly superficial wildlife post: Tapirs vs. Warthogs )

Dead Set wasn't bad at all.

( It was a drama about, uh, zo, zomb...them things. (Spoilers inside) )

Grace Jones was on Jonathan Ross last night. I had no idea she was still making music. She used to simultaneously terrify and fascinate me. She's like Peter Pan or something - I swear the woman hasn't aged; bio info says she just turned 60, but she looks exactly the same as she did in the 70s and 80s. I never knew what to make of her music. ( Read more... )

A C17 Globemaster just made a loud, slow pass overhead. It was so low I could not only see that the landing gear was partly out; I could clearly view each individual wheel of that apparatus. That plane felt so huge and ominous, like it was just about to drop out of the sky ( Read more... )

Someone showed me this piece of bullshitty, contradictory propaganda on the 'failure' of the foxhunting ban.

( I suspect the hunters feel like tossers for now having to admit to the fact that they spend their free time dressing up in poncy clothes to play hide and seek with fox wee in the middle of nowhere. )

The BBC has plainly decided to power up Silent Witness this series. They've been floundering without Amanda Burton, so I suppose they were trying a new approach...( ...cut, for potential spoilers and waffle )

It got really cold really quickly. The sun has been out a bit today, but it's properly nippy, which may well mean a shift to colder weather ( Read more... )

We've got buzzards here - at least three. I see them often - flying, perching, or getting mobbed by jackdaws. I hear them even more frequently. I know where they nest in the high-up trees, and one even landed on my windowsill once and had a look in - astonishingly golden eyes. Yes, it did scare the wits outta me. It's always been a bit ( Read more... )