BeenThere-DoneThat Blog

A blog about life and travel in Great Britain

Browsing Posts published in April, 2013

I’m just a little flower

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What’s the rush?

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Well, I'm glad you asked me that because I can now tell you. It's the Greater Woodrush. Scrappy looking flower head init? That is not a good photograph. What it really needed was for the flower head to be sunlit but the background to be in deep shade. That would have shown it up nicely [...]

Trains, Cranes and Cobbles

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Chance is a fine thing. Our weather forecasters invariably get it wrong but occasionally a forecast will turn out to be right purely by chance. Saturday was one of those forecasts. It was forecast to be sunny all day and so it was. We leaped on a train, figuratively speaking, and leaped off at Stratford [...]

Spring is sprung, the grass is ris. I wonders where the birdies is. They say the birds is on the wing. Ain't that absurd? I thought the wings was on the bird. (Anon) Well, it seems to have arrived but some trees and plants seem to be well behind. Our plum tree should be showing [...]

Snow and Software

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Software is everywhere. It's in your computer, your smartphone, your washing machine and your television. You are using it now to read this post. The trouble with software is that it has bugs in it. They may not always be apparent but they are there. There are unpleasant people out there who know this and [...]