“One of the many bees in my bonnet is…that I like what I understand to be the attitude of the folk of the Neolithic, and often say it’s been downhill all the way since”
Is This Where Our Big Brains Have Taken Us?
Week Forty-four – One Day At A Time
“It’s the time of year…….Lots of luscious looking fungi..….DON’T BE TEMPTED!”
Hedgehogs and Bonfires
This is just a reminder, before the 5th of November, about checking your bonfire for hedgehogs.
Weather Forecast: Mainly dry today with some bright spells.
Fresh north to northwesterly winds moderating. Maximum temperature 10 °C.
Studies Of A Rook
Images by Mike Bell
Weather Forecast: Cold and windy with showers.
Feeling cold in the strengthening northwesterly winds. Maximum temperature 8 °C.
The Fest. May Be Over – But Here’s More About Brochs
“St. Michael’s Church, Harray, is built on a Broch! As in – yer actual Iron Age broch. “
Coming Up to Samhain
“On the evening of Thursday the 28th October the sea and sky of the Bay of Hinderayre turned pink – not bright pink but a deep, strong pink.”
Multiple impacts set back oxygen build-up in the Archaean
“The photochemical trick that underpins oxygenic photosynthesis seems only to have evolved once. “
If You’re Waiting For A Mammogram Appointment
“people can check their own breasts while waiting for the full-on check-up “
