Tag: Natural History

  • Blue Pooh

    I went for a walk in the Forest over the weekend, and came across what I think must be a pile of blue pooh. How can this be? Well, I think it is the waste matter from a creature that has been eating beetles. There seem to be a lot of beetles about too, several…

  • Cicadas can drive you mad!

    I found one eventually. I only had to follow the sound to one of the noisy little blighters that sounded as if it was at head height. The cicadas in Greece are very loud. Locally they are called Tzitzikias, which is a very good name for them because that is the sound they make. I…

  • Octopi

    So, I was on the plane to Greece… I had the learn greek podcast on the headphones while I skimmed through the phrasebook. I’d better try and learn the numbers, I thought. Deka is ten… Of course it is. And twelve is dodeka – mI remembered making models of Dodecahedrons at school. It all makes…