Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Steady Mercury

Last night, I spotted the new crescent moon setting over Heptonstall, accompanied by Venus off to the far right. So I grabbed this photo… It was only while I was processing the photo this morning that I realised I'd also bagged Mercury (faint dot, just right of centre). Not bad for a 300mm telephoto lens… Continue reading Steady Mercury

Nazi Turdidae

One of our local blackbirds has started singing The Ride of the Valkyries: They’ll be annexing the Sudetenland next.

#StayAlert!!!

The vitally, vitally important message Boris ‘Bus-liar’ Johnson is trying to convey here is, if and when UK Covid-19 death rates begin to rise again because people were pressurised into going back to work too early, it most definitely won’t be his fault… We just didn’t play our roles and ‘#StayAlert’ enough to ‘CONTROL THE… Continue reading #StayAlert!!!

Congratulations

…are apparently in order to Prime Minister Boris ‘Bus-Liar’ Johnson on the occasion of the birth of his sixth or seventh child.