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Mosquitoes have been much more numerous this summer compared to previous summers. I suspect that we have both Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus; the two are very similar and the only time I get a good look at one is when I've managed to squash it. One squashed mozzie looks like any other...

It costs much more than a roast chicken. Would you let your cat jump on a roast chicken? How would you prevent that? Apply the same reasoning to any other object.

I have a couple of his from donkeys' years ago. I suppose you could describe them as "nail busters", but with a strong pinch and a bit of practice I can open them more or less one handed.

It looks very compact for 130 litres.

I saw a little gecko on the wall last night and this morning found it in the bathroom. It ran onto my foot, up my leg and body then behind my ear. SWMBO got a picture of it. I went outside and got it to move to the fly screen on the window, where I got a couple of pictures. I think that...

I've seen lots of lizards these past four days. I just helped my niece to catch one that was in her bedroom. We eventually got it to run into the case for my telephoto lens so that we could then put it outside.

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Two Fuji films for my daughter. And a second Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 lens. Because the EF 17-40mm lens that I thought is brought away with me is an EFS 17-55mm... So the only lens I had with me is a 1.19kg monster 300mm. I had thought of looking in 2nd hand shops but this afternoon stumbled upon...

I recognise hardly any of these names. I'd be up for a One Man and his Dog type thing, learning how to work with a collie.

Pilot whale, Flying fish, Shearwater, Osprey, Kestrel, Lizard (common European), Lizard (some other kind).

Nice clouds, though.

Mum and I went up to the top of Stannington this morning, I took some sightings from a footpath through a field I'd been to in March. Great place to see the eclipse! We went back with her camera, tripod, two folding chairs, glasses and filter held on with masking tape. There was one couple...

I went out yesterday to the park to try to find a decent viewing spot, but this eclipse happens quite low in the sky and there are to many tall trees. This morning mum drove us out to a spot where we'd been back in March to get her used to driving again after a long break. I'd gone along a...

That's not a Barlow, though; a Barlow has a much longer bolster.

I saw one a few weeks ago at our house in SW France. Five of us were sitting around the table outside eating, about 14h15. I heard a slight rustle in the grass and saw a mole that had left its hole;I watched it run over to a pile of firewood about eight metres away. Given that moles are...

I got rid of mine. It was only gathering dust.

I almost always have a Leatherman on my belt. It gets used many times a day, every day. When if I'm just in the house, garden, perhaps a walk up to the chutney shop or into town for a few bits, it's much easier to reach for the Leatherman rather than go to the tool box. I think that the pliers...

Nobody has thoughts on Nessmuk?

Maybe not in the UK. But in the US, definitely. For example 914 is the area code for White Plains, New Rochelle and a few other towns, not far from where I used to work

We have one of those, but it's for steaming vegetables. You put that basket in a deep saucepan, put in your veg and pour on boiling water from the kettle up to the level of the bottom of the basket, put the lid on and bring it back up to the boil then put the lid back on. I'm not sure that it...