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Mary Rose (1)

Over the next few weeks, I plan to publish a series of blogs about my recent visit to the Mary…

Mary Rose, Portsmouth, Portsmouth Dockyard

Naturelog: Wednesday 16th April

A lovely sunny afternoon so went off to Sutcliffe Park LNR to look for Butterflies and perhaps some early Dragonflies…

Eltham, Sutcliffe Park LNR

Bizarre Creatures Found in the Mariana Trench

Originally posted on Michael Bradley – Time Traveler:
Bizarre Creatures Found in the Mariana Trench. Footballfish Footballfish are deep-sea anglers that live in the…

Mariana Trench Wildlife

Turner and the Sea

Today I went to see the Turner and the Sea exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. I am…

Fighting Temeraire, JMW Turner, national maritime museum, Turner

Naturelog: Sunday 13th April

We had an unusual daytime visitor to the garden today. We often hear our local Red Foxes at night especially…

Eltham, Fox, Red Fox

The Draco

The ‘Draco’ was part of a Roman military standard. It was initially used by the cavalry as they charged into…

Draco, Roman Cavalry, Roman history

Eltham Palace Gardens

It was such a lovely day on Thursday. Everything was bright and Fresh. Spring is finally here! (Famous last words…

Eltham, Eltham Palace

Kiss your Heritage Goodbye

Originally posted on Ed Mooney Photography:
Coolbanagher Castle via Google Street Veiw Please forgive me for this post as I may rant…

Naturelog: Thursday 10th April

The morning dawned bright and sunny but my mood was anything but. Due to a broken rail there were no…

Eltham, Eltham Palace, Tarn

Bletchley Park revisited (8): The Enigma machines

When people generally talk about the Enigma machine, they usually imagine that it was a single model, which once the…

Bletchley Park, Enigma

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