Friday 30 March 2018

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....

Wednesday 28 March 2018

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

Sunday 25 March 2018

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.......


Friday 16 March 2018

Post Brexit Fish no. 2: Mackerel

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

Thursday 15 March 2018

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)

Wednesday 14 March 2018

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.......

Wednesday 7 March 2018

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.......


Tuesday 6 March 2018

Ugly Bug Ball #Bugstoo

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

Sunday 4 March 2018

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!




Friday 2 March 2018

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

Thursday 1 March 2018

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.....