Monday 10 August 2009

Moor pictures (sorry).











We saw relatively few birds and other wildlife out on t'moors, but what there was looked good. We surprised a grouse (innocently) and disturbed this heron, of which more pictures are here. James showed me how to use my posh camera better (very typical of me to have something better than I can really handle) and he took these waterfall pictures - I took all the others. He's the chap struggling through the meadow, in case you're a single lady on the Welsh/English border.

Cynical Ben's account of the day is here.

6 comments:

Benjamin. said...

Marvellous scenes of nature otherwise vacant in Wolverhampton and hopefully you had an enjoyable time.

Needless to say, I wouldn't use that particular picture of your friend Dan to entice the women as well... he looks about 12 with his face looking downwards.

Surely you are a catch too with your photographic skills and satire. The problem is I can imagine your girlfriend asking if you enjoyed her home cooking and you'd respond with something on the lines of "It was potently distasteful". Or “Your bum DOES look fat in that, you utter Harriet Harman".

The Plashing Vole said...

Dan wasn't there - it's James.

Hard to believe, but I'm a kind and solicitous individual - outside the classroom! Though I do use the words 'adequate' and 'satisfactory' too often in social exchanges.

Leave Harman alone! Yes, she's a posh machine politician who helped sell Labour out to business, but she has redeeming features and is no worse than the rest of them. Caroline Flint's a hollow shell of a human being, for instance. I think the women get a worse ride from the press because they're popularly expected to be more caring, but anyone who gets to the top in the current political climate is likely to be a values-free manipulator, regardless of sex.

Benjamin. said...

Oh forgive me, I get confused.

As for Harman, I blogged about the sheer amusement of her belief she was left to run the country last week. But you are correct, they cannot be successful and motherly at the same time. Each and every one of them has a dark side.

I shall arrange for the prettiest notetakers or demand they employ youngish ones with a liking for rambling and perhaps has her own group 'The Slutty Walkers' for next year if I do select your modules. However with my WOLF otherwise in disposed (I shall see about this after the gym) I cannot pick them yet. In the process, I expect your classes to be full by the time I do. Shameful.

James said...

Stop posting pics of me looking like a freak, you blogging worm. In your deranged mind is this some sort of recompense for the imagined bullying you receive?

The Plashing Vole said...

I don't think you look like a freak at all. You look cool. If anything, that shot reminds me of 'Stand By Me'.

James said...

I don't think you're cut out for a career in pimping.