oh the indignity and not a motorcycle in sight

Came across this glove a couple of weeks ago just hanging around whistling a tune I vaguely knew, then I caught a mumbled line or two "bet this didnt happen to Steve McQueen".

The great glove escape of course...wonder if we can expect a range of salad dressings?

when worlds collide

Worked in a garden in east Cambridge yesterday , cut the lawns as usual and there I find these two Bee Orchids, its not the first time I have seen them in this lawn but it is the first time I have shared them.

Took me back to my days at Milton Country Park which has come up a few times this week one way or another. We are our past and present, are we our future as well, now theres a thought........

stock doves and their cousins

No its not a wood pigeon, its one of the lovliest pigeons/doves we have in this country, its a stock dove and thankfully there are still a lot about.

Thats unlike its cousin the turtle dove a most glorious bird that purrs like a cat or a frog according to who you listen to which is incredibly rare nowadays, why well being blasted from the sky and trapped in every way known to man as it makes it way north from africa every spring doesnt help.

So find yourself a stock dove and say a prayer for it and its cousin the turtle dove, we need them both but I suspect stock doves might be around a bit longer the way things are going.

high speed snails and the guided busway

Now I have been telling groups about these for years now but here is the truth..........according to me.

The Cambridge Guided Busway was built to try out the latest breeding attempts by Cambridge University to breed snails capable of high speed, why to defoliate crops in countries that are hostile.

Every evening four snail are placed on thew ribbons of concrete and the time they take to reach St Ives from Cambridge is recorded, obviously you breed from the fastest stock.

Below is all the evidence you need to prove my long held conviction that the university is conducting secretive research under cover of the guided busway.

I took this picture today as the snail concerned raced up the tree truck I was taking a picture of. What more can you want as evidence. This also makes me wonder about the latest reported problems with the busway, namely that there are cracks along them and the supports are moving. This has been described as caused by the ground conditions. Again this is an attempt to hide the truth about racing snails, the defects are obviously caused by the speeds they are achieving and the wind turbulence and cavitation effects of their passage.

You heard it here first, the truth will out!

pastoral views within reach

If I havnt mentioned it before I have moved a few miles further east of Cambridge to Burwell a lovely large fenland village that nestles on the chalky clay on one side and right onto the peat fen on the other well almost.

Been looking around as you do and came across this lovely pastoral scene just a few miles away in the village of Reach, its a national trust piece of land that used to be used for turf growing, or thats what the notice board says, have to say I prefer it now.

I heard a voice a glove calling for help!!!!!!

So I was in th Botanid Gardens in Cambridge, had just told stories to some children and I walk past this tree and I heard it a voice, thin, strained, heartbroken, pleading. What could I do the brick wall built to trap the glove inside the tree for all time was too strong. How can I free the glove, how, come on please tell me someone.

its a tough life for roadie gloves

Bumped into these two characters the other day while judging a park for a Green Flag, they have had a rough and tough life and oh the stories they told me about ********** ******* and that ******** ***, not that I will spread gossip.