. To think I flew 300 hours in this plane before an eejit pilot missed the runway but found a fence. Anyway, it looks lovely in our garden and even the beacon on top of the tail-fin works.
What’s the world coming to – trees were never so brazen in my day.
Or should that be Dilwyn Guevara. Posters are available to celebrate the first Welshman in space.
Hybridisation is not unusual in nature. It can though cause problems where a wild species interbreeds with a domesticated version. Consider the Wildcat and its declining population due to interbreeding with housecats. Or the problem with Spanish bluebells diluting our wild populations of native Bluebell (hyacinthoides non-scripta)
But has anyone stopped to consider what happens when a Sperm Whale hybridises with a Rowan tree. This one was seen flapping around in hedgerow in Montgomeryshire recently. A worrying development and one for the geneticists I think.
I’ve been hunting this book for years. Amazon, Abebooks, Foyles, nobody can put their hands on it anywhere. It must be out of print. Either that or it doesn’t exist.
Goetre Hall (aka Moneypit Hall) reflected in the flash that appears every downpour.
It was this ECG and what happened afterwards that had an accelerating affect as I travelled my road to existential enlightenment.
An oak and a cherry
their arms entwined
embrace and kiss
until the end of time
Found this rather distracted pair on the steep hill behind my house. (Meifod, Powys)