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Entries from April 2009

Harmonograph – what you can do with a few bricks and some string!

April 29th, 2009 · No Comments

I’ve just added a new page with some photographs of a simple version of a harmonograph – two pendulums connected to a pen which traces their combined motion. The resulting traces are quite fascinating. See it here.

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Red Squirrel

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments

I’ve done a bit of trawling through pre-website photographs, and found some of a red squirrel, taken at Skygarth Farm, Temple Sowerby, Penrith, Cumbria, UK in the summer of 2006. You can view these on the unsurprisingly named Red Squirrel page.

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Burton Joyce and Bulcote Local History Society

April 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Went to the monthly open morning of the Burton Joyce and Bulcote Local History Society today. The Centre for Local History is based in the Carnarvon Room, on Chestnut Grove in the centre of Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire, UK.  The Society has a monthly meeting with a speaker, on the second Tuesday evening of the month, […]

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Jackdaw, Kestrel, Sheep and Lambs

April 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Three more pages added from the recent weekend in Wharfedale: sheep and lambs at Grassington;  jackdaws and a kestrel seen at Bolton Abbey.

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Goosanders on the River Wharfe

April 7th, 2009 · No Comments

A very enjoyable couple of days spent in Wharfedale included a very pleasant walk along the River Wharfe upstream of Grassington. A pair of goosanders was quite unconcerned that we were close by, and we were able to watch them for about twenty minutes. Some of the resulting photographs are posted on goosanders page.

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