Month: January 2011

Skipping work…

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One of the benefits of working from home, is I can up and go when I like, so last week, I decided to do a Val and disappear out for two afternoons with my camera.

Tomato Lake is about 20 minutes drive from home, and is a wonderful spot, in a kind of funny location.  Down the road is Belmont Forum shopping centre, and a few kilometres further are the domestic and international airports.  Yet the wildlife seems plentiful and extremely varied.

Lake Monger is a little further from home and in a suburb with large and expensive houses.  It was all very peaceful, and like many others I took a cool drink, some sarnies for lunch, found a bench to sit on and enjoyed the sunshine for a few hours.

Main intention for this was to practice the slideshow, and see if I’d followed Boadicea’s excellent instructions correctly…here goes!

Fearless Jack Russel attacks Croc

Some of you may remember my post on the baby elephant being grabbed by a crocodile and being saved by the herd running to its rescue.

Today I read the remarkable tale of a croc threatening a lion cub, three lionesses noticed the intruder, rescued the cub and made mincemeat of the errant croc. The whole episode was captured on camera, full story and lots more pics here.

Our news has just  reported that a fearless Jack Russel chased and caught a croc up on the Vaal River… Continue reading “Fearless Jack Russel attacks Croc”

Alternative Nursery Rhymes

A few alternative nursery rhymes for Janus… but written a while back , so probably don’t count for the competition!

Lottery

There was a crooked man,
who walked a crooked mile,
he found a crooked pound coin,
upon a crooked stile,

he bought a crooked lotto ticket,
and won a crooked prize,
and went abroad to sunny Spain,
which was very, very wise. Continue reading “Alternative Nursery Rhymes”

‘Just’ Swim?

OK, some of you will have been through this before with me  – but this year I’m doing a slightly different challenge.  Instead of pledging to swim either 100 or 200 lengths on a given day in a given pool I’m pledging to swim regularly from end of January to 8th April to see how many lengths I can accumulate. Continue reading “‘Just’ Swim?”