See you around, folks...
Friday 1 October 2021
Sunday 6 June 2021
7th June: World Swift Day!
"World Swift Day is a global celebration of the Swift – this most
fascinating & mysterious of birds whose very survival is threatened."
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| Photo by Robin Chittenden |
More here.
Wednesday 14 April 2021
Saturday 20 March 2021
World Sparrow Day
Today is World Sparrow Day!
"The diminutive house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is perhaps one of the earliest birds you can remember from your childhood. Their nests dotted almost every house in the neighbourhood as well as public places like bus bays and railway stations, where they lived in colonies and survived on food grains and tiny worms. Many bird watchers and ornithologists recall with fondness how the house sparrow gave flight to their passion for observing birds."
Sparrows are everywhere, but there are many different species of them, as you can see here.
"Unfortunately, the house sparrow is now a disappearing species. But like all other plants and animals which were once abundant and are now facing an uncertain future, their numbers are also declining across their natural range. The reasons?" Read more here.
Friday 5 March 2021
Warning
Warning
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
Jenny Joseph
..."An ode to nonconformity"...
Read more.
Saturday 2 January 2021
Saturday 26 December 2020
2020, a year to be remembered
Many say 2020 has been a year to forget about.
On the contrary, I believe this should be a year to remember, to remember those who passed, those who stayed and the ones who helped us to stay around.
Also, we should remember a few lessons learned this year, about health and public resources, about common sense or the lack of it, about lifestyle and responsibility, about our effect on the Planet and its consequences, and about the important things in life.
Definitely, for what is worth, this has been a year to be remembered.
E.
From BBC:
If we were to create a time capsule of objects that captured life in 2020, what might we choose?
With very best wishes for 2021
Monday 21 December 2020
Friday 11 December 2020
A better option ...
... adoption!
There are many shelters around, but you can try these:
Remember, this Xmas:
Monday 30 November 2020
Tuesday 10 November 2020
Monday 9 November 2020
Saturday 31 October 2020
Thursday 29 October 2020
Open windows
"A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air"
Read the full article here.
Thursday 22 October 2020
Tuesday 6 October 2020
We shall overcome
How do pandemics end?
"We are in the grip of a pandemic like none other in living memory. While people are pinning their hopes on a vaccine to wipe it out, the fact is most of the infections faced by our ancestors are still with us"...
From: BBC, 4 October 2020
And a song of hope:
Thursday 1 October 2020
Monday 21 September 2020
Wednesday 5 August 2020
Thursday 2 July 2020
Wednesday 10 June 2020
Masks, gloves, turtles...
'More masks than jellyfish': coronavirus waste ends up in ocean
A glut of discarded single-use masks and gloves is washing up on shorelines and littering the seabed
From The Guardian
Read more.
Wednesday 13 May 2020
Tuesday 5 May 2020
75th anniversary today
5 May 1945: Liberation of Mauthausen Concentration Camp
On 5 May 1945, Mauthausen Concentration Camp was liberated by the US Army.
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| Mauthausen camp survivors cheer American soldiers soon after their liberation. May 1945. |
Read more here and here.
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| Memorandum by the Chief of the Security Police and the SD, dated 25th September 1940, concerning the treatment of foreign and German former combatants in Spain. The ordinance accompanying this memo provided the basis for the mass deportation of former members of the Republican Army to the concentration camps.(Bundesarchiv,Koblenz,R58/26) |
Spanish republicans in German concentration camps: read more here.
Wednesday 29 April 2020
Tuesday 28 April 2020
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