• Poppy Field - Compton Abbas - Wiltshire
    Poppy Field – Compton Abbas – Wiltshire

    I just had to share this. Coming back from a wedding in the New Forest this weekend, I was blinded in the gloom, by this incredible field of poppies, high up on a ridge in Compton Abbas, Wiltshire. Apparently, According the the couple I talked to there, it has been featured in the Telegraph.

    I calmly asked my wife if we could stop, as we zoomed by. Luckily there was no one behind us and there was a convenient parking place for walkers.

    So glad we saw it.

  • awwwwwww!

  • Tailless Lizard - Pelopenese - Greece
    Tailless Lizard – Pelopenese – Greece
    We are often told how lizards can shed their tails to enable an escape, leaving a bemused hunter with just a wriggling bit of tail in their mouths or beaks. I’ve once or twice found the bits of tail, which have been discarded and not worthy of a meal, but I’ve never seen a lizard that shed it’s tail. I’ve seen slow worms in various stages of growing tails back.

    I just came across this photo that I took on holiday in Greece, this summer. He must have very recently got away from what ever it was that nearly got him!