How to look an albatross in the eye (Part 1)

5 minutes before my first proper job interview (by which I mean post-university) I found myself in a waiting room in Kensington, staring at a picture on the wall. The picture showed black-browed albatrosses in flight. I thought them to be the most beautiful birds I had ever seen, and promised myself that one day …

How to look an albatross in the eye (Part 2)

Here's a treat for you; I have written about horses arses, and Donald Trump all in the same post, but it's not what you think... If you missed the first part of this story you can read it here. Falklands Conservation visit Steeple Jason a couple of times each year to conduct research and seabird …

Thing One and Thing Two

Last week I spent an afternoon wading through the still and clear waters of a nearby inlet searching for clams. There was not a breath of wind, the water was a perfect mirror, it was a good time to reflect. As I watched crabs scurry behind reflected clouds and ducks slice open the sky, two …

Some words from 2013…

Some snippets from the last 3 months…

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A Day in Stanley…in a minute

This is my first attempt at timelapse photography. I was hoping for a change in weather or a good sunset but unfortunately today was remarkably calm. This was taken from around 10am through to 7pm and condensed into less than a minute.

Salty Tales

It's high time to write a new post. I've spent a lot of time at sea recently with several trips on different boats and only short periods back on dry land. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. My last trip was a research cruise on a trawler. It's part of an ongoing project …

Suns and Sons

Ten minutes before bed Oli busts out his profound question of the day "Dad, what are stars?". Some children would be happy with 'burning balls of gas millions of miles away' kind of explanations to which they might say "oh" and move on, not understanding but having an answer filed away to regurgitate in the …

What a Day!

Oh my stars.... What a day. Today was always going to be tricky. My daughter Rosie, last week fell over a curb and apart from bruising and grazing her lip she cracked a tooth in half. Completely in half. One half is firmly in place but the other half was hanging on by a thread. …

What do you do with the tooth once you’ve been the tooth fairy?

My eldest son has started to loose his baby teeth. The other day he lost his second baby tooth. The first one came out a while ago. I was cooking dinner at the time. My husband was home, and he dealt with the BIG event. I saw the tooth, I congratulated him on loosing it …