Fish Face Off (Post Brexit Fish no 5 & 6)

Imagine having eyes on the top of your head which can swivel and being able to swim like a fish. 

Oh, and being a fish.....(Dover Sole, Scottish Megrim)

Blood Roses -Battle of Towton, 1461

March 29th 1461, perhaps the bloodiest battle in English history took place during the War of the Roses on a bleak North Yorkshire plateaux. When Lancastrian arrows fell short, Yorkist longbow men send them back with the prevailing wind, to devastating effect. The Towton Battlefield Society runs walks of the site:  www.towton.org.uk/battlefield walks from the Rockingham pub at Towton....

Massive Medieval Village

A road upgrade between Cambridge and Huntingdon has uncovered a vast site with 6,000 years of history, including a medieval village, Iron Age henge monument, anglo saxon timber village and a Roman trade distribution centre......... see: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-43559369

Post Brexit Fish no. 5: Herring

Poor little fella, he looks a bit wan

Mary Rose Yew Longbows (for Debbie Palmer)

In 1545 the Mary Rose sank to the mud in the bottom of the Solent, which preserved 140 yew longbows.... divers said they came out looking like they'd just been cut from the tree.......

Post Brexit Fish no 4: Hake

Post Brexit Fish no. 3: Pollock

Another Fish to Fry.............

Post Brexit Fish no. 2: Mackerel

This one's for Gav.....is there a subliminal message printed on their backs??

Post Brexit Fish no 1: Dab

The Marine Conservation Society urges post Brexit switch to fish from UK waters.

 Number 1 is the gorgeous North Sea Dab (sorry vegans)

Stephen Hawking Tribute

With thanks to Caroline Page and apologies to The Clangers. Farewell to the inspiring Stephen Hawking, who died on Einstein's birthday.......

The New Tufty Club

According to today's Guardian, scientists think the return of the pine marten  could help save the red squirrel, reduced in numbers by the invasive grey squirrel.......

Ugly Bug Ball #Bugstoo

RHS Top 10 Ugly Pests....or beautiful examples of the rich ecosystem?

Hokum @ Hall Bower Defibrillator Benefit Gig

Thank you to Hall Bower Athletic Club for a fantastic evening....and to our brilliant Gig Artists 

Alf, Becky & Co aged 9-11 years, great work!

Eyam Flea Dusting

"A Derbyshire Almanac" by Paul Sullivan lists some old customs in the village of Eyam. Children pulled the stamens from daffodils and pretended to churn butter in the flower's trumpet...and wives dutifully swept their steps ("the dusting of the fleas") believing "if you kill a flea in March you kill a hundred". This being the village where Plague struck in 1666, courtesy of fleas..... 

Toys Rn't Us

Toys R Us has called in the receivers

Beast From the North

For Brigid and friends in Scotland being battered by The Beast from the East.....Cu Sith is a mythical green phantom dog who haunts the highlands. Apparently wives were vulnerable to being abducted  by the green dog and carried away to fairy mounds to look after fairy children.....

Beast From the North

For Brigid and friends in Scotland being battered by The Beast from the East.....Cu Sith is a mythical green phantom dog who haunts the highlands. Apparently wives were vulnerable to being abducted  by the green dog and carried away to fairy mounds to look after fairy children.....