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2015-01-19 RSPB Birdwatch

Jan21
by on 2015-01-21 at 18:01
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The weekend of 24-25 January 2015 is the date for the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch, so you’ll need to get ready to count!

RSPB were interested enough to publish today’s comic on their blog… so if you arrived here from there WELCOME.  Please consider leaving a comment to say you’ve been here.  Thinking about it, quite a few of comics from the past have been about birds, RSPB or wildlife in general.

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RSPB Birdwatch...
I've already seen eighteen adults and eleven children! How about you?

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2015-01-10 Be My Gust (one final draught)

Jan14
by on 2015-01-14 at 21:40
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It’s been rather windy round here for the last few days.  I’d like to thank Antonia for suggesting the chinchilla in the starring role, but I do seem to have made it rather ratty.  Still, rats can be cute too.  Previously it’s been bikes and rhinos.

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small fluffy creature (it's a chinchilla. or a rat, perhaps) goes flying in the wind from a volcano-like structure.

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2015-01-10 Wahwah Owl

Jan11
by on 2015-01-11 at 12:35
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Here’s a little doodle I made for a trumpet-playing-friend’s birthday card.

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tu-wit?
tu-wah-wah-wah-waaah!

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2014-12-25 Yes, starling

Dec26
by on 2014-12-26 at 10:00
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Happy “whatever” to you, dear readers.

Today’s comic was inspired by our visit to our local RSPB bird reserve at Otmoor, yesterday, where we saw and heard an astonishing murmuration of starlings (estimated at around 50,000) swirling around above us and finally coming down to roost in the reeds.  My point-and-click photo doesn’t begin to do it justice, and of course there’s the sound of the wings and the calls too! If you get a chance, enjoy this sight while you possibly can — starlings are on the critical list and in serious decline.

20141225_murmuration(click for the whole picture)

 

UPDATE: Karen put up a video of this on her blog.

 

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starlings at home:
"I don't feel like going out again this evening. How about we stay in and have a nice, cosy murmuration here - just the two of us?"

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2014-12-15 Rain Forest Gateau

Dec16
by on 2014-12-16 at 20:17
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Thanks to Karen for the idea for this one!

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Rain forest. And gateau. What did you expect?

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2014-12-06 Allotment

Dec09
by on 2014-12-09 at 22:14
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Polytunnels.  One more thing to be scared of at the full moon.  Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the turnips.

We went to the exhibition of Gothic art at the British Library last weekend: “Terror and Wonder – the Gothic Imagination.”  Highly recommended.

UPDATE: Potential solution to the poly tunnel menace:

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Polytunnels. And the full moon. And allotments. Mwahaha.

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2014-11-26 The Pea and the Princess

Nov28
by on 2014-11-28 at 00:00
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I find myself wondering about alliterative story titles.  If it had been not a princess but a countess then I suspect she would have been traumatised by a cauliflower rather than a pea.

See Aarne-Thompson classification number 704. Also see this.

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Pea couldn't sleep at all. Through a dozen slabs of marble and hardest obsidian he could feel something soft and yielding. By the time morning arrived he was bruised all over.

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2014-11-10 Edwina’s Birthday Party

Nov10
by on 2014-11-10 at 18:00
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I’m posting this before I go to the party, because there’s a good chance I will either be made to walk the plank or else expire from overdose of delicious food.

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Edwina, pirate king, stands on the feasting table on her galleon and prods guests who will not take another slice of cake with her snicker-snee. One guest lies dead on the floor, clutching a golden spoon spattered with chocolate remains.

Caption: Most guests seemed to work out fairly quickly that refusal of seconds at Edwina's Birthday Parties was not quite the thing.

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2014-10-26 Pink

Oct26
by on 2014-10-26 at 16:39
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If you must know, they are Dr. Martens.

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1. Karen has new shoes.
2. They are PINK.
3. They are VERY PINK.
4. Other accessories previously described as pink ...
5. ... seem less pink now.
6. Pink shoes, however, must be expected to rub.

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2014-08-28 Sunflower

Aug30
by on 2014-08-30 at 11:49
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In this documentary the part of the sunflower is played by Helianthus annuus.

I am grateful for the assistance of my wife, Karen, and to the legion of plant suppliers whose prolific supply of seed catalogues forms an excellent and nourishing mulch in our flower beds.

Scientific note: John Gerard, master in chirurgerie, says in his 1597 book “The Herball, or, Generall historie of plantes” regarding “the flower of the Sunne”

[…] a plant of such stature and talenesse, that in one sommer being sowen of a seede in Aprill, it hath risen up to the height of fourteene foote in my garden, where one flower was in waight three pounde and two ounces, and crosse overthwart the flower by measure sixteene inches broade.

[…] those that have reported it to turne with the sunne, the which I coulde never observe, although I have endevored to finde out the truth of it

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Young woman plants a sunflower seed. After many trials the sunflower reaches maturity. Then things start to get out of control.

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