Category: The World
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Cute Critter Friday: The Fish with the Smiley Face!
Time for today’s real Cute Critter post! I was walking around the Lake in the Grinds earlier today when this chap ambled up to say ‘hi’: He was quite shy, and kept bobbing in and out of the water plants that you can see at the top of the above photo. However, as I was…
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Cute Critter Friday: Gull Tikka!
A slight change of plan for this week’s Cute Critter Friday. Pictured above is a poor, unfortunate, and very lucky seagull. For some reason, he fell into a vat of chicken tikka masala, where the curry turned its feathers bright orange! And a very nice shade too, I don’t mind saying. Luckily, the gull was…
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Herb-Robert on the Nature Trail
#NatureDoodlewash On the Nature Trail today, we come across a tiny tiny pink wild flower, called Herb-Robert, growing amongst the grass. I didn’t know it was called that until I carried out some intensive research on the internet. I also discovered that it has other names: Geranium Robertianum; Red Robin; Death Come Quickly; Storksbill; Dove’s…