Fledgeling (00:00) - It's been very quiet round these parts. Our prolific junior correspondent has flown the nest. You'll find him over at HampshireBirder's Blog....
Posted at December 31, 2006 12:00 AM by cem in Caroline
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Monday 23 January 2006
Winter Warbler (00:00) - For the last few days we've had a blackcap visiting our garden. Here it is sharing the feeder with a couple from our troupe of long-tailed tits....
Beautiful Days - like festivals used to be? (23:59) - This year our summer tour took in Beautiful Days for the first time. This festival has been widely described as "like festivals used to be". I think that phrase is meant to distinguish Beautiful Days from the sort of festival...
Festival Food Awards 2005 (23:59) - It's not only the music that takes us out on the festival circuit every summer; we also go for the food. Here are some of our favourites: Leon Lewis Leon is peerless as a festival caterer, and has been top...
They hae slain the Earl o' Moray and Lady Mondegreen (00:00) - The mondegreen was named for this mishearing of the Scottish ballad, "They hae slain the Earl o' Moray and layd him on the green". Everyone has their favourite mondegreens, the gems of innocent misunderstanding which stand out from the contrived...
Her Britannic Majesty helps out (23:30) - What a nice surprise to read some news that makes you proud. Apparently the British High Commission in Islamabad has a team of diplomats who rescue young British women held against their will in Pakistan. No equivocation, no mealy-mouthed excuses...
Posted at December 17, 2005 11:30 PM by cem in Caroline
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Wednesday 14 September 2005
Squirrel Nutkin moves home (00:34) - Yesterday we watched a squirrel move home with her three babies. Sharing our garden with two cats had proved too much for her. One by one she carried her babies, tiny mouse-sized creatures with thin tails, in her mouth to...
My, hasn't the rose bush grown! (00:00) - On your left, Tom and Clara starting school in September 1998, in their shiny new shoes and too-big uniforms. And on the right, the same scene in September 2005. Spot the differences....
Drummers (00:00) - The BBC Dorset site included this photo of Rob and Tom taking part in the djembe workshop at the Larmer Tree festival. A couple of things I should make clear:You'll have to take my word for it, but Rob...
Integrated Passenger Transport (00:00) - In Amsterdam, everybody rides a bicycle. They don't make a big thing of it. You won't see anybody racing by in shiny lycra, or even wearing a helmet. The bikes are all similar - large and heavy, with high handlebars,...
Amirah R.I.P. (00:00) - We were thrilled to see Amirah the Amur Leopard cub at Marwell zoo on the 26th March. Tom sent me this photograph of her. Two days later she was dead, killed by her father after squeezing through the rock barrier...
Dangerous wild animal? (11:26) - This is Sheeba, a brown-spotted Bengal, and one of the Jordan-Maynard cats. The Bengal is a rather new breed, created by hybridising the wild Asian Leopard Cat with domestic breeds including the Abyssinian and Burmese. It is regarded with some...
Posted at January 30, 2005 11:26 AM by cem in Caroline
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Friday 21 January 2005
Spiers & Boden play Winchester (01:21) - Last Friday, the Tower Arts Centre treated us to a concert by the wonderful John Spiers and Jon Boden. This excellent booking was allegedly achieved through Boden calling John Tellett a bastard in Folk on Tap for not having booked...
Posted at January 21, 2005 01:21 AM by cem in Caroline
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Saturday 1 January 2005
Goodbye Dance Tent? (04:03) - According to efestivals, there will be no Glastonbury Dance tent this year. Its site will be used for the enlarged New Tent, now renamed the John Peel Stage. Which goes to show, as my mother claimed, that fashions always come...
Posted at January 1, 2005 04:03 AM by cem in Caroline
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