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 [...]