Everyone gets fat and old, says someone fat and old, if they're lucky. I just saw a juvenile moorhen do proper flying - like a proper bird. (I was feeding its mum or dad, and it wanted in on the action). Distance, style, the works. Won't be able to do that this time next year,... Continue Reading →
[Sobs] My illusions shattered. I've just seen two moorhens having a go at each other over food They were next to the towpath, on the grass. (yes, crappy photo - cameraphone, poor light etc) I was able to throw them food and not feed the ducks. [Ducks are, in my opinion, the humans of the... Continue Reading →
Second 4hr30m+ yomp today. Same distance (basically to Stafford and back), but carrying an extra house brick (in a back pack) this time. Will increase the distance, and the weight. In future will make sure to be carrying enough water (today ah depended upon the kindness of strangers...) Anyhoos, right at the end, just as... Continue Reading →
S/he flew across the canal (10m or so?) which is a fair effort, if you know anything about moorhens. The wings are not decorative, but neither are they the wings of an albatross. I was walking homewards along the canal towpath, with high reeds and plants between me and water. I was just coming (another... Continue Reading →
Yomp #02 0645-1020 on 19 04 2023 = 215 mins 18kgs of weights in the backpack A mere 24 photos, the least unusable of which are below. The second yomp was just as much fun (and even more knackering - up hill and a bit further) than the first one. Some very loud and colourful... Continue Reading →
Today the Adelaide Parklands Association (which exists to explore, inspire, protect and restore) held a rather excellent guided tour of the very south-east corner of the Parklands... Not much to say, other than groups like these - existing to defend public space from "practical" bureaucrats/politicians (who oddly often seem to get post-retirement sinecures with developers)... Continue Reading →
Yomp #01 0755-1105 on 13 04 2023 - 190mins 18kgs of weights in the backpack 60 photos taken (the least unusuable ones are on display below). Galahs, moorhens (WHOOP), sulfur-crested cockatoos "etc" The first yomp of the Adelaide visit is done, and it was a corker. What follows is a bunch of photos, digressions and... Continue Reading →
I have a long-standing fascination with how "nature" gets invoked, how the idea is mobilised to defend whatever people want to defend. First really really started thinking about this (I think) after reading the following quote by Julian Rathbone, from his novel "Zdt" Wrong. Nature in the Middle Ages was a hierarchy, a chain of... Continue Reading →
tl;dr We use "nature" to justify whatever we want to justify. A couple of days ago Kevin Anderson (the climate professor, not the South African tennis player) tweeted about a new paper which shows just how rubbish the Dasgupta review was. https://twitter.com/KevinClimate/status/1397891825260769282 [I could go on about how aggravating it is when people retweet bits... Continue Reading →
I photographed this yesterday morning, at Heathrow Airport. A friend of mine has written about elephants in the room and climate change and all that jazz. Ranciere, Badiou, that crowd. Me, I'm a Walt Benjamin man - “Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, is now one for... Continue Reading →
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