After IEF2009, the lovely Terri & I mosey up to Gstaad for lunch. Sitting in the sunshine outside a restaurant in the main street with a bottle of local Vaudois Pinot Noir-Gamay, we hear bells. Low, slow, mellow bells.
Around the corner come honey-coloured Charolais cows with tiaras…
On a BA plane I buy a solar powered mosquito repellent device. “Female mosquitoes normally bite during their spawning period, at this time they do not like being approached by male mosquitoes, so the repellent produces the same frequency of the male mosquito (around 5KHz – 9KHz) to repel the female…
Rowing down the Thames at the weekend I see a most amazing sight. A tern has made a nest inside an old tyre.
The tyre isn’t on the bank, it isn’t tethered, it’s floating free, bobbing on the wavelets of the Thames with the tern happily sitting…
I never realized, until this week, that the Octopuses have a very delicate sense of propriety. In the aquarium at Monterey there are two magnificent Octopuses in tanks, side by side, surrounded by signs saying: ‘Don’t flash the Octopus’.
This, of course, causes immense hilarity among the English visitors…