Last Thursday while out for an evening walk I spotted lots of these insects sunning themselves.
After quite a bit of research it turns out that these are Six Spotted Burnet Moths (Zygaena filipendulae). There where quite a lot of them there I didn’t count exhaustively but I think I saw at least 20.
The photo was taken at Southwater Country Park on 14th July 2005.
BT have recently announced “Privacy at Home” – what this gets you is free caller line id (Which was previously around £1.75 + vat a month) – To sign up go here and enter your Phone Number and Account Number. While you are there BT are also offering to sign you up for the Telephone Preference Service which should help reduce the number of sales people cold calling you.
Just found out about a new company called JellyBarn who are starting there own online photo gallery setup ala flickr. There product is called GrapeBerry and is going to be released to beta in August, click through above to signup and find out more information. They are also on the lookout for a wordpress plugin developer to provide WordPress <> GrapeBerry integration.
In an attempt to revitalise the long lost tradition of Recipe Monday today we bring you a quick recipe for Curried Chicken Pasta Salad (Yes, I do realise it is Tuesday today but this is still a Recipe Monday recipe, after all it was invented on a Monday). This recipe was invented out of frustration after finding out that none of the many recipe books that litter our house, not even the backbones of the collection Complete Illustrated Cookery Course by Delia Smith or Leiths Cookery Bible by Prue Leith and Caroline Waldegrave, actually contain a recipe for the epitome of a curried English summer dish – Coronation Chicken.
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