I had a lovely weekend with Dad, in which I managed to squeeze in 3 episodes of Good Omens by watching them at 6:30am in the morning on successive days, and now I have three left to go tonight. I am mostly avoiding adaptation spoilers so far, but I’ve seen a few and my resistance is growing weaker. Fortunately I don’t have to hold out for long. ( Read more... )

In fairness, if mobile phones with cameras had existed when I walked to school, and I had seen a giant salamander, I would certainly have recorded it*.

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I am feeling a bit cheesed off, having come down with a cold just at the point at which I saw light at the end of the tunnel on a couple of work fronts. I cracked and went home for the afternoon ( Read more... )

Snake eats crocodile after battle. This is not encouraging me ever to visit Australia ( Read more... )

This morning was brightened by video of a Swiss pine marten invading a football pitch. It is eventually caught and removed.

A man with the speed and skill to grab a pine marten and who clings on even after being bitten by it, is a man I’d want on my team. It was eventually caught a second time and removed by a gloved goalkeeper.

It has been brought to my attention that other people may have watched slightly fewer David Attenborough (and other wildlife) documentaries**, in their formative years, and thus be a little hazy on the finer point of which large-antlered ruminant mammals are which. This post aims to remedy this deficiency.

Alces alces

Male and femaleThis is the ( Read more... )