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The Romanesco Broccoli Photoshoot


Seems that this is not a Green Cauliflower but Romanesco Broccoli. This is because it has striking and unusual fractal patterns of its flower head.Broccoli and cauliflower are closely related and fully cross compatible. The cross is easily made by hand pollination or natural pollinators. My hand pollination is not so good and neither is my natural pollination. So this one was bought at Garsons Farm for £2. The taste was very cauliflower like though apparently not identical.

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Romanesco Broccoli

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Romanesco Broccoli

 

Changing Weather in Claremont Gardens


These three photographs were taken approximately two minutes apart and show the extreme variability of UK weather in February 2016. Claremont gardens are a National Trust property in Esher, Surrey.

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Three Superb Photographs from Sunday. Not taken by me. GCSE Photography after 1 month.


Just to showcase three superb photos of very different topics that were not taken by myself. Enjoy. I wish I had the opportunity to do GCSE photography.

  1. The simplicity of a Kit Kat against the sports pages of The Sunday Times. Red and white.
  2. A cat seemingly wanting to eat an almond croissant.Cumberleylaude, a ‘gourmet cat’ with a love of fine dining, could join stage show CATS after discovery of lost TS Eliot poem. Is this the first audition for the role?
  3. Manic seagulls getting very excited over stale bread. Beautifully captured on a foggy morning.
Kit Kat

Kit Kat

Cumberleylaude, a ‘gourmet cat’ with a love of fine dining, could join stage show after discovery of lost TS Eliot poem.

Cumberleylaude, a 'gourmet cat' with a love of fine dining, could join stage show after discovery of lost TS Eliot poem.

Cumberleylaude, a ‘gourmet cat’ with a love of fine dining, could join stage show after discovery of lost TS Eliot poem.

Claremont birds. Copyright Elena Bushe

Claremont birds. Copyright Elena Bushe

The Corn Angel


This half of corn was just sitting in the kitchen and looked just like an angel. Nothing extra has been done to the corn. Holy Corn.

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Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Corn Angel

Paintings by Vincent Van B of Claremont Gardens Esher


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Foggy A 3 Looking like a scene from Dr Who


Again occasionally the I Phone gets a decent photo. The A 3 around Esher is always worse from weather viewpoint!

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Met Police 1 Carshalton 0


This year has been a good one for Met Police as they sit on the verges of the Ryman Premier play offs. To those not familiar with non-league football, this is 3 promotions below the football league. The ground is a decent small ground near Thames Ditton with a car park and is on the same grounds as the social club for the Met Police. The only problem are small crowds and in fact only 115 arrived for this game and maybe 20 of those were visibly from Carshalton.

The game was as one-sided as a 1-0 game ever could be. Met Police missed a penalty, hit the bar and scored a single goal early in the second half. Realistically this was the last chance saloon for Carshalton who now can look forward to relegation with certainty. The season has been complex for them, with some decent, though apparently highly paid players moving on. One who will certainly move is their keeper Nick Hamann, the best keeper in this league and he kept Carshalton in the game in the first half with a series of superb saves. A conference level keeper in my humble view.

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Flooding near Esher


Even now that the rain has allegedly stopped, the flooding is still present in many areas in Surrey. Certainly in Cobham the Thames is very high still and these photos are of a nice filed that is often used for picnics and cricket, not at the same time, in the summer. Near Esher and in fact opposite Garson’s Farm in Winterdown Lane. The cruel ones amongst us might suggest we are looking at the new QPR football ground with ample space for their legions of fans watching a team that has been the most consistent in the football league this season!

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Claremont Gardens in Esher. No football mascots odd or otherwise here.


I am gently amused today that having done this blog for around 15 months now, and blogged about all sorts of things, football through to literature and travel, that the most hits on my blog in one day have come from me posting a handful or words and a single photo of a really odd football mascot yesterday.

Anyway today a return to sanity and a nice trip to a National trust property in Esher in surrey. A grey day, rain in the air, mostly drizzle, but a real autumnal feel to the day. Not so many people there, but a nice walk around the lake and through the woods. Lots of mushrooms and the trees looked nice, at least those retaining their leaves. Worth going here? Maybe. as a member of the National Trust it is of  course free but otherwise to pay £7 entry, maybe not.

Mushroom Concoction

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