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Red sky at night.
Posted May 9, 2010
After a thoroughly overcast and chilly day, it brightened up just after it started to get dark.
http://bit.ly/98E7IW
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Garden/growing stuff.
Posted Apr 25, 2010
Everything is now underway. Last weekend, spring onion and radish seeds. Yellow courgettes in pots which have just germinated. Chilli peppers, Basil seeds in pots.Today corn flower and mixed annual seeds planted. The weather has been great for a week now. Have a nice big bin full of compost, made all year, ready to dig into the courgettes beds.
Am quite excited to see lots of Elder seedlings appear up the back in the wildish bit. First year I've ever seen them from the last years elder berries, from the old tree. I reckon that period of intense frost snow and ice must have triggered them this year. Many seeds need that to become viable.
It appears the Elder is a very important tree in folklore. Sacred to witches and home to them and dryads. Wands are traditionally made from elder. It's unlucky to cut one down, but are protective, if you have one in the garden. Sacred to the thirteenth month in the moon calender..something to do with 'hags'..oh well that's okay for my old age then 
Also Judas apparently hung himself from an elder. Lots of stuff on the internet about their importance in paganism. Yeah, I love all this type of thing, really I do..don't believe a word of it of course Half the plants in my garden are actually very important in folklore..oh and rather good for wildlife as well.
Lots of birds around which I'm pleased about, as I fed them fatballs with seeds all during the intense cold of the winter.
Reeds in pond doing well..and by the looks a gazillion water snails..I reckon they were busy multiplying under the ice layer all winter 
Weather really has been great this spring.
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Flying Ants
Posted Nov 5, 2009
Because my old name of Effers was unacceptable to the new BBCiD thingy. I am now Flying Ants.
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Cult of Nature goes Under Water
Posted Sep 9, 2008
I'm pretty damned excited as I've just heard that my film I made will be shown this saturday and sunday as part of the Thames festival.
http://www.thamesfestival.org/
Maybe I'll get to meet Boris Jonhson...
Here's the film, 'Under Water', as I've called it; it's based around an Edwardian road tunnel, running under the Thames.
It's best to let the film load first, as it takes a while to load, before pressing on the 'play' triangle. The stacato sound and silence, and the way it has been cut and edited is part of it.
Click on 'UNDER WATER'
http://gallery.mac.com/flyingants#100049/UNDER%20WATER&bgcolor=black
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Effers;England.
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