(Competition results later today. Still time to enter..) With improved battery technology, there has been some success recently in tracking migratory waders. Here’s the journey of a little lady unromantically called Bar-tailed Godwit N7. [She stands maybe nine inches (22 … Continue reading
If you haven’t entered the competition with the dubious prize, today is your last chance. Tomorrow I will announce the winner. And if you don’t know what I am talking about, look at the entry for September 8th. You have … Continue reading
This post is a request from my husband. He (and his team of Universiti Malaysia Sabah students) recently found a new orchid species for Tawau Hills Park in Sabah, previously found elsewhere, but a first for Tawau Hills. Any orchid … Continue reading
Sometimes it is hard to keep up with the latest frivolity of security organisations. Can you or can you not take liquids on planes? What about duty free liquor bought in the airport shop? Do I take my shoes off … Continue reading
If you discount the general horrors of two days travelling, eating plane food, without sleep, it was a pretty good trip. I didn’t lose anything. Planes were on time. No connections missed. I discovered that there is such a thing … Continue reading
It’s now 1.15 a.m., heaven knows what day, and I am at Changi airport, Singapore. I leave at 7.10 a.m. for Kuala Lumpur. The nice thing about Changi is that it is littered with free internet connections and places to … Continue reading
All good things come to an end. Tomorrow, at 6.30 a.m., I start the journey home. 37 (real time) hours later I arrive at Kuala Lumpur airport, after 22 hours on planes plus 15 hours spent at respective airports. The … Continue reading
None tonight. Two margueritas put paid to that. Up until dinner: 158,000 / 180,000(87.8%) … Continue reading
Sorry, didn’t take a photo. Son-in-law was too busy killing it.New one for me, dangling on a line from the kitchen cupboard on its way to the floor, right out in the open… Sometimes even an environmentalist is happy to … Continue reading
Early mornings.Breakfast to be had. Things to be remembered.Three-year-old to get off to school, to be dropped by parents (first week back at school this week, so not without trauma).Mother and father of said three-year-old to get selves off to … Continue reading
