Banished's Bugs

Its December 25th again and its time to celebrate Shane MacGowans birthday. It seems that while America continues its War Against Shane, ...

The Torture Never Stops Air sculpture was the name Frank Zappa (1940-1993) gave to his guitar solos. Frank would have been 71 today if...

Saturday we took Banished Jr out to the Winter Wonderland. He loved it. All those robot elves and animated critters in a world of artificial...

Tom  Waits doesn't want to grow up. But he's 62 today anyway. Happy Birthday. Don't we all feel this way some days? 

Well I successfully managed to not photograph a grey heron flying low over the pond on Friday and apart from that there is not much moving b...

Hail Henry Purcell who died this day in 1695. Born in  1659(ish) he was the most English of all English baroque composers and is still perha...

I know, you're all going to think I'm obsessed with mantids and their rather gruesome dietary habits. But you have to admit, they r...