A trip to Thursley NNR in Surrey today with the RSPB group. Thursley has some very good birds including Hobby,…
Views of Alnmouth (1)
Alnmouth is a pretty village on the Northumberland coast in the north-east of England. It is reckoned that there has…
Sun
To mark the Sunny weather here in London, here are some recent photos of our glorious sun
Lachish falls
We left Sennacherib camped outside the walls of the city. We are fortunate in the fact that we have both…
Naturelog: Tuesday 17th June
A lovely afternoon and so I decided to take a walk around the Tarn. Stopping first at the small pool…
One Assyrian invasion or two?
There is some debate as to whether there were one or two invasions of Judah by Sennacherib. What has lead…
Vikings
A meeting at the British Museum enabled me to finally visit the Viking exhibition in the new exhibition gallery a…
London Buses (2): AEC Regent III
Continuing in my nostalgia vein at the London Transport Museum, lets turn to the first bus I remember from my…
Black-headed Gull
They say that familiarity breeds contempt and that certainly might be true in the case of the Black-headed Gull. One…
The Assyrians come to Lachish
The eighth century, marked the high point of the Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia. Having conquered and subdued the countries to…
