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And now, actual butterflies!


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I got some Polaroid 600 film refills for my camera. Polaroid had a 50% off sale prior to Christmas and I spent a lot of time dithering over cameras until the bloke said, “You already have one, why don’t you spend that £50 on the film you want to shoot rather than on another camera?” Fair point, I thought, so I did. I bought the blue and yellow ( Read more... )

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Breaking news: Two hedgies! TWO! This is very exciting. I think this circling nose-dance is their mating ritual. Our daily footage examination yielded several videos, of which this is the best one, of the hedgehogs doing this in slow-motion over the course of about 45 minutes. This is the ( Read more... )

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Last week, I remembered that we still have a motion-triggered video camera, which was gathering dust in the bloke's office. Figuring that our hedgehog was probably awake now, I dug it out, replaced the batteries - it takes eight AAs and it munches through them at a rate of knots - and asked ( Read more... )