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Peter's Imp and Mr H Haynes check out the course.
The August Bank Holiday Monday meeting at Cartmel racecourse attracted a huge crowd for the racing. Six races over the afternoon, it may not be the best racing but it is very good fun all round.
Photo taken in the wonderful little Anja Community Reserve, Madagascar. A locally owned conservation area nestled in a fantastic arid backdrop. Run by the local community, it is home to species of chameleons, snakes, ring-tailed lemurs, and many birds and plants.
There's a little creek that runs into the sea on the edge of the Heathcote/Avon estuary in Christchurch. It is a favourite bathing spot for gulls, terns and oystercatchers.
A native of New Zealand, being found throughout the country and on outlying islands including the Chatham Islands and Sub-antarctic islands. The Red-billed Gull is a fairly small gull with an all-red bill, red eye ring, red legs and feet, pale grey wings with black wingtips. The rest of the body and tail are white. There is virtually no visual difference between the male and female birds. The immature gulls have a dark brown bill with only hints of red. The legs are also brown and there are brown spots on the grey wings.
It is the smallest gull commonly seen in New Zealand; a recent estimate of the population puts it at half a million birds in the country. Until recently it was regarded as a subspecies of the Silver Gull Larus novaehollandiae found in Australia, and the two species are very similar in appearance. However the most recent research suggests that they are not particularly closely related. Behaviourally, the Red-Billed Gull is a typical gull. It is an aggressive scavenger and kleptoparasite. Since European settlement its numbers have increased, especially around coastal towns and cities where it can scavenge from urban waste. It normally feeds on small fish, shell fish and worms (from pastures), and sometimes berries, lizards and insects.
I am not sure of the botanical name for these, but they started to feed as the tide was beginning to wash over them in a fjord in Norway
This is a screen grab from a BBC video player wall featuring interviews with BBC staff.
My question is - which video would you click first?
Rhyton with a winged griffin, 500–400 BC
found at Altıntepe, Turkey
Silver and gold
Drinking as a fine art
Drinking at a Persian royal feast was a test of courtly behaviour, requiring dexterity and skill.
Although this griffin vessel resembles a drinking horn, it is a rhyton, used to pour wine.
Served into the funnel at the top, the wine flowed out from a narrow spout between the griffin’s forelegs. While reclined on a couch, the drinker held the rhyton high in one hand and released a stream of wine that flowed theatrically into a drinking bowl balanced on the fingertips of the other.*
From the exhibition
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece
(May 2023 – Aug 2023)
Between 490 and 479 BC, the Persian empire tried, and failed, to conquer mainland Greece. Many Greeks explained their victory as a triumph of plain living over a ‘barbarian’ enemy weakened by luxury. Ancient objects reveal a different story. The Persian court used luxury as an expression of prestige and power, with a distinctive style that was imitated and adapted across cultural borders, even influencing democratic Athens and, later, the world of Alexander the Great.
'Treasure there was in plenty – tents full of gold and silver furniture… bowls, goblets, and cups, all made of gold'
When Greek soldiers captured the royal command tent of the Persian king during the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC), they were confronted suddenly and spectacularly by luxury on an unimaginable scale. To many ancient Greek writers, the victories of the small Greek forces against the mighty Persians were a triumph of discipline and restraint over an empire weakened by decadence and excess.
Drawing on dazzling objects from Afghanistan to Greece, this exhibition moved beyond the ancient Greek spin to explore a more complex story about luxury as a political tool in the Middle East and southeast Europe from 550–30 BC. It explored how the royal Achaemenid court of Persia used precious objects as markers of authority, defining a style of luxury that resonated across the empire from Egypt to India. It considered how eastern luxuries were received in early democratic Athens, self-styled as Persia's arch-enemy, and how they were adapted in innovative ways to make them socially and politically acceptable. Finally, it explored how Alexander the Great swept aside the Persian empire to usher in a new Hellenistic age in which eastern and western styles of luxury were fused as part of an increasingly interconnected world.
The exhibition brought together exquisitely crafted objects in gold, silver and glass, and featured star loans including the extraordinary Panagyurishte Treasure from Bulgaria. Whether coveted as objects of prestige or disparaged as signs of decadence, the beauty of these Persian, Greek and Hellenistic luxuries shaped the political landscape of Europe and Asia in the first millennium BC – and their legacy persists in our attitudes to luxury today.
[*British Musem]
Taken in the British Museum
Workplace bullying case 'worst ever seen' , The Age Newspaper, Ben Schneiders, April 29, 2010
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Lucy the Lionhead says that sometimes it's best to hide in plain sight. She is quite conviced there is a herd of carrots out there somewhere.
The small bird flying off just fed a bug to what looks like a fledgling that was on the wire. The small bird was 1/2 the size of the other bird.
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