Red in tooth and claw.
The soim had become increasingly “friendly” over the last few weeks, not something I always appreciated, especially as they can …
Category Archives: Plants and Garden
Sketches of some typical plants of the region.
Some pencil and water colour pencil sketches of plants from the garden. (double clicking on an image will enlarge it.)
A soim (common marmoset) in the house.
Some time back we were woken by the unmistakable call of a soim Callithrix jacchus, if you imagine elongating their …
Grey and drizzly
We are getting ready for a trip back to visit family and friends in London. My mother emailed me and …
Some things that made me smile this week
This beautiful butterfly came in the house one evening and just begged to have its photo taken. We see these …
Maribondo = a general name for a type of wasp.
Maribondos come in a a variety of sizes and colours but they all share the basic same elongated hour-glass body …
Hopping about in the water tank
Our water gets pumped up from underground by an electric pump. It goes up to a plastic tank, which stands …
It’s all in the flavour
Four years ago, our garden was not much more than a bare patch of parched, white sand. Neu had planted …
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