Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Recently I have been taking photographs of street furniture around Brighton, particularly Victorian boot scapers and coal hole covers. When you start looking for them you find them all over the place.
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
As a teenager in the 70’s I went swimming three or four times a week in Stevenage Swimming Pool. In those days health and safety was not taken too seriously, so we had a 6ft springboard, running jumps from a 12ft top board and could play all kinds of games such at jostling to retrieve [...]
Monday, July 27th, 2009
This is a photograph of the macropterous (long-winged) form of Roesel’s bush-cricket, Metrioptera roeseli, taken near Ebernoe Common in West Sussex a few days ago. This form usually appears in hot summers, enabling the species to extend its geographical range quickly. The species arrived in England in the 1990’s, probably as a result of [...]