A great GWR loco, City of Truro, meets one of its modern counterparts 3717 CITY OF TURO twitter.com/train12341/sta… — train12341 … More
Author: Pete
I am semi-retired after a career in medical sciences. I now work from home doing independent research and consultancy amongst other things. One advantage of this is that I do have time to indulge my interests including birdwatching, natural history, steam trains and history particularly ancient history.
Flying Scotsman
That most iconic of Steam trains – The Flying Scotsman 502 flying Scotsman twitter.com/train12341/sta… — train12341 (@train12341) March 31, 2013
Roman Kitchen
A replica Roman Kitchen from The Museum of London
Birdlog Saturday 30th March
Not a promising day cold overcast and wet!! When will the spring arrive? Not a lot of activity in the … More
Bird pictures: Wood duck
These are pictures of a Wood Duck which spent a couple of months on the Tarn at the end of … More
Blackeye galaxy
Two pictures of the Blackeye galaxy taken using the Bradford Robotic telescope The Blackeye galaxy (M64 or NGC 4826) was … More
Butterflies on display
Looking forward to this exhibition at Natural History Museum The hottest ticket in town? At ~30C inside it's definitely one … More
Badgers
Birdlog: Wednesday 27th March
First stop this morning was the ecology Park on the Greenwich Peninsula. However this was very quiet and the only … More
Now for Alfred the Great
After the recent discovery of the body of Richard I under a Leicester car park, comes this story Church Exhumes … More
