The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.
Robert Leighton
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10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 31st 2010
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Slime Could Help Engineers
One of the interesting creatures that I learned about when I attended Christopher Lloyd’s lecture at the Royal Institution was the slime mould. He explained how individual pieces joined together to find the quickest, most efficient way through a maze to reach food that had been placed at the entrances. Over at the BBC I [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 22nd 2010
Originally Darwin tried to rear tropical plants within a plant case that he had bought for the drawing room. Unfortunately the plant case was too small and some of the more exotic blooms failed, so he erected a hothouse.
In the early 1860s, he erected a hothouse alongside the green house in the kitchen garden [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 20th 2010
The promised snow did arrive over night and it was snowing like the clappers when I got up this morning. As I mentioned yesterday I had no choice but to go into work because I was on Business Improvements Delivering Excellence training. So there was nothing for it but to put my best foot [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jan 13th 2010
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Great Britain Under Ice
I know some of you will have seen this image already but I thought it was worth posting for those who haven’t.
This amazing image of Great Britain under it’s icy topping was captured by NASA (Satellite Terra) yesterday. I don’t think (in living memory) I can’t recall a time when Britain has been completely covered [...]
17 Comments CherryPie on Jan 9th 2010
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At Evenfall
The view from my office this evening.
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 8th 2010
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The Frozen Lake
Not to be deterred by my failed mission to photograph seabirds on a frozen lake I made a detour to another lake whilst I was trying to deliver Christmas presents on Christmas Eve. I managed to get quite a few photographs, but on this occasion the failed mission was trying to deliver the presents. Although [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Dec 28th 2009
