More often than not, when we come back from a trip that had a sniff of wildlife, we have several unidentified critters with which we need help. Our spring trip to La Belle France was no exception. Here is where…
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New Forest, New Friends
What would a retired couple, a retired couple with a dislike of the noise emanating from children, I might add, be doing visiting the otherwise delightful New Forest in the middle of August, I hear you say? Very good question!…
New Toy Returned
Before we went to France for spring, I had managed to convince myself that I really would like a new camera, the Canon EOS 7D. It’s main appealing advantages over my current Canon EOS 40D were: 18 Megapixels (as opposed…
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New Prunes
It takes a long time to sort through pictures from a trip, especially when it was a longer one than normal. Still, progress has been made and the dross has been discarded. Now we just have to merge our new…
Pushing the Boundaries
When we first retired we began taking six week trips to France. Last year we extended that to seven weeks, braving the presence of Satan’s Little Disciples in the last week of our trip. This year, in lieu of a…
Panoramic Pretences
I am a traditionalist. This may seem a little strange for someone who spent their entire career in technology but it’s certainly true. I suspect it stems from my father who was a craftsman, a joiner in fact, with a…
Hawk Eyes
Will this winter never end? I’m ready for an improvement in the weather and some R & R. Still, at least I’ve been using the grey days to try and get over my December medical hiatus. The other thing I’ve…
Introducing “The Beast”
Having been removed from my tenter-hooks by the delivery of my new camera lens, I thought it appropriate to introduce the beast – and beast it certainly is tipping the scales at 1.36 kgs or about 3 lbs. The Beast…
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On Tenter-hooks
As a child I recall getting several common day-to-day phrases completely and utterly wrong. I suspect it stemmed from a childlike lower vocabulary. I was, after all, more of a scientist than a language scholar and, when it came to…
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Newton’s Third Law of Motion
I believe Newton’s third law of motion is phrased thus: Whenever a particle A exerts a force on another particle B, B simultaneously exerts a force on A with the same magnitude in the opposite direction. Alternatively, and perhaps more…
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