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22 Sep 2013

Spiders in New Malden

Our garden is an eco-system, well thats the opinion of the teacher at our daughter’s school and in fact applies to all the form who have a garden. Thinking about it we have foxes, bees, hedgehogs and numerous other invaders and visitors. Compost is made and goes on the soil, an oak tree grown from an acorn from Wisley Gardens, apple tree and so on. Anyway whilst photographing this melee of activity today ( whose homework is it?) I met some large and curious spiders. The garden spider is alive and well in New Malden. What however is interesting and there may be a simple reason, is why hardly any of these exist at Wisley RHS gardens? any clues?

Garden Spider by chris Bushe

Posted in Uncategorized and tagged bees, community, ecosystems, fimo, foxes, gaming, garden spider, geography teacher, growing veg, holida, holiday, homework, nature, new malden, plants, potato, school, spiders at wisley, teacher, wisley, wisley gardens, wisley rhs, wisley rhs gardens

18 Jun 2013

Poppies in the garden

One of the more hateful denizens of our garden, squirrels are the chief suspect, seems to have knocked down one of the growing poppies. Resultingly this humble little angiosperm had to be taken inside to be cared for upon which two large petals fell off. Cue time to get the Macro lens and get some spontaneous poppy photos. Enjoy.

Poppy

poppy

poppy having a drink

poppy

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18 May 2013

Batalha Monastery

Batalha monastery is in Batalha around 130 kms from Lisbon along a nice toll autoroute. In fact it is really the only major thing in Batalha. There is a nice hotel Villa Batalha and some nice restaurants, but without the monastery there is little to entice visitors. You cannot miss the monastery as it towers over the town and is a great landmark to find your way around.

The building took over 100 years to build starting in 1336 and represented the commemoration of a battle. An earthquake in 1775 did some damage and pillaging Napoleonic soldiers did rather more in 1811 but the restoration began in 1840 and was added to UNESCO world heritage sites in 1983. To view all the various segments takes around 2 hours and some degree of internal sat-nav. The Portuguese are not recognised for their signage skills and the first difficulty one has is finding the way in. The second one is to work out that although entrance to the main Nave is free, to get into all the interesting parts costs a mere 6 euros, but no-one actually tells you this. The ticket desk is in fact just that, a desk in the corner. The interior is beautiful. There are many tombs and chapels and there is little point me detailing these as Wikipaedia does a wonderful job. I will only focus on the curious architecture around the monastery. Roads seem unfinished. Piles of sand seem randomly deposited on the road blocking the way for example to the only hotel in the town. The town has great sports complexes, football grounds, swimming pools and even an athletic track. What seemed missing was people. The place other than a few dozen tourists was empty. Cafes and restaurants all with nice smelling foods were essentially empty. Maybe the rain did not help. This is a place worth visiting. A night in the Hotel Villa Batalha. A dinner in a restaurant . A 2 hour visit to the monastery and maybe some coffee and people watching in the squares. I like this place. Even the graffiti is worth looking at.

Woman Sleeping outside a shop. Presumably not dead

Batalha Monastery

Piles of random sand in random roads in Batalha

Batalha Monastery

Soldiers in Batalha Monastery

Batalha Monastery

Batalha Monastery Soldier

Batalha Monastery

Graffiti at the Monastery of Batalha

Batalha Tree

Batalha Monastery

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12 Apr 2013

FIMO Clay Models

FIMO is a brand of polymer clay that one buys in little brick sizes not much larger than a matchbox. All colours. Recently the 12-year old has got heavily into making small models. Gradually she has become more adept and uses scalpels, watches YouTube tutorial videos and generally more proficient. She now has become excellent at making these tiny models each around 2 inches tall maximal. Today she has produced various little cakes. a narwhal, HelloKitty cupcakes and other interesting little items. Here are a few samples of her work. Do spread the word.

FIMO Model

FIMO Narwhal

FIMO Models

FIMO Cake

FIMO Models

FIMO Rabbit

Posted in Uncategorized and tagged android, brick sizes, clay modelling, community, fimo, fimo clay, fimo tutorials, gaming, half term, half term hobby, hello kitty, hobby, hobbycraft, little cakes, mobile, model making, modelling, models, narwhal, occupy children, polymer clay, you tube | Leave a comment

10 Apr 2013

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Nick Hamann. Trialist goalkeeper at Brentford

A good keeper that I have watched the last 2-3 years at Carshalton in Ryman Premier. Played for Chelsea as a youth and German by birth. 25 years old. Has been given a game in the development squad this week.

Nick Hamann

anyone needs a drink if they are in goal for Carshalton!

Posted in Uncategorized and tagged brentford, brentford fc, brentford trialist, carshalton, carshalton fc, chelsea, chelsea youth, community, gaming, germany, london, nick hamann, ryman, ryman legaue, ryman premier, soccer, sports, super-bowl, vacation

07 Apr 2013

Woking 2 Wrexham 0

The nearer one gets to the end of the season the more certain matches matter. Woking are safe in the conference and in fact are the most successful part-time club in the UK. Wrexham are a full-time club striving to be back in the football league where they belong. The reality before this game was that their most likely channel would be the playoffs and after this game this is now a certainty. However it is worth just thinking how much football needs to be played by the better sides that are successful in the cup competitions and in fact Wrexham won at Wembley the FA Trohpy a few weeks ago. They looked tired and most likely were tired having played 48 hours before. Woking were on top for most of the game and always looked the likelier team to score and they duly did twice in the second half in front of 1500 supporters. Jayden Stockley scored both goals and missed a simple chance for his hat-trick. He was the best player on the pitch. The other player to impress, mostly in the first-half was Dele Adebola, who is still a physical handful at this level.