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One day…

Adrian — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:40:18 +0000

One day I’m sure Charlie will like this clever YouTube video entitled “A Wolf Loves Pork”. In the meantime I enjoyed it. You may too:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Bittern

Adrian — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:07:54 +0000

Why don’t we get specials like this over here? For those train-spotters out there here is 30 seconds of ‘Bittern’ BR 60019, an A4 Gresley, arriving at Shalford to take on water last week.

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Bouquets

Adrian — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:30:59 +0000

The annual Bouquets to Art event was this week. So many flowers. So little time. So we went twice. Here is a selection. See our Picasa pages for more.

Salamanders

Adrian — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:29:14 +0000

We seem to be lucky enough to have many families of salamanders in our garden. Whenever we move something we seem to find them underneath. We have set up a rock in an area that shouldn’t get disturbed during the garden renovations and we hoped they would find a home there. But this week some seem to have decamped to underneath our green-waste (compost) bin that had only been in place a couple of days. Managed to grab a quick picture. Here’s the mostly brown one. The other two were all black. If anyone knows which exact type of salamander these are please let us know. There are many types native to California.

Conservatory

Adrian — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:07:25 +0000

A fine day out… enjoy!

Tangmere

Adrian — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:24:52 +0000

Well hello again. Long time no post. This isn’t really to bring you up-to-date with news, to bang on about the primary campaigns over here in the US (amusing as they are) or even to show you the lovely Sparaxis flowers from the garden (though they are pretty). This is to show you a little snippet of video my sister Jane took last year – thanks Jane! – and show how easy it is to post YouTube videos and show them here.

So please enjoy this short clip 35 second of a great steam engine thundering through Brookwood station on Saturday morning 15th Sept. 2007. The engine is 34067 ‘Tangmere’ an unrebuilt Battle of Britain class loco.

Click here to view the embedded video.

And in other news I’ve just done this too: croquetonfilm.com.

A380 SF fly-by

Adrian — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:51:50 +0000

Last week the test Airbus A380 full of large water bottles (pretending to be passengers) and some lucky Airbus employees (who were actually passengers) flew into SFO at the beginning of Fleet Week. Then on Friday, in between the Blue Angels practice sessions it flew out on its way back to Toulouse as part of its 150 hour engine test.

The A380 flew by at a few thousand feet and did about three loops of the city, admittedly going slowly for the onlookers, but as reported elsewhere it was almost silent. The Blue Angels were much louder and much lower – you couldn’t ignore them wherever you were in the city. Check out the rest of my Flickr photos for more of this huge aircraft.

A380 over SF Originally uploaded by amwadley

Time and light

Adrian — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:26:26 +0000

SF Garden 2007

Summer time has arrived early, before even the spring equinox. I like it. The light in the morning when I start work is of a quality you don’t often see, or at least it appears to be. Who used to get up this early (and pay attention) in March? I think I’m going to like these three extra weeks of spring light. And of course what’s not to like about the ‘later’ sunsets. Anyway the garden is oblivious to the time change, and continues to sprout. Here’s a few pictures we keep updating at our Picasa site.

RIP Delores

Adrian — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:58:56 +0000

It is with great sadness that I have to report that the star of pigcam, Delores, has died. She was young, and well loved by her many internet fans, and all the kids and staff at the schools in Landrake and Saltash. She will be missed.

Delores – another perfect dozen?

Adrian — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:21:23 +0000

Delores is about to farrow again – have more piglets. Will she have another perfect dozen and keep her 100% record? Find out here on the pigcam – http://www.pigcam.co.uk – live – this weekend!

UPDATE (Wed Oct 11th): Yes, she farrowed on Sunday (Oct 8th). She had 14 piglets plus one stillborn. Of the 14 alive one died overnight. This is not unusual with a litter of this size. She raised all 12 last time. She has a good chance of raising 13 this time. Good luck Delores! Oh, and if you want to look for yourselves – good luck to you too! The pigcam is generally overwhelmed and I haven’t been able to check for more than a day. There was BBC breakfast show coverage on Tuesday and there’s a direct feature on BBC Cornwall which will cause a lot of traffic. If it’s busy check back in a few days, or at night, UK time.