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Yesterday was our hottest day of the year so far, so I headed into the wood and sat on a bench for my coffee break. It didn’t seem much cooler in the shade of the oaks and sycamores.

Oak and sycamore (colours inverted in Photoshop).

I started drawing the oak tree in front of me but got distracted by a repeated pin prick on my arm from some tiny insect so I w...


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VivoBarefoot Tracker Forest ESC Apologies for the tilted horizon: it’s difficult to photograph your own boots!

I’ve been getting used to my new hiking boots gradually, building up to trying them on the circuit of Langsett Reservoir a couple of weeks ago.

VivoBarefoot Tracker Forest ESC are ‘barefoot’, so about as minimal and lightweight as you could get with ...


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12 August 2026, 6.47 pm.

I noticed these crescent-shaped patterns on the wall behind our Tai Chi instructor, Pat, as we finished our session yesterday. They’d been projected through a lattice of foliage and the vertical blinds of the Primrose Hall, Horbury. You can get a similar effect by projecting the Sun’s disc through a colander.

Every week as we practice Tai C...

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“It looks more like a baboon,” suggests one visitor and, looking at the side view, I can see what he means.

Had the person who created this clay head ever seen a lion? It’s described as Old Babylonian dating from 2000-1000 BC but there’s no evidence that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon ever included captive animals.

On the museum label, the suggest...


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