Phlegmatic

Back in the old days, people would expect you to sit through an evening's worth of holiday video footage. Nowadays thanks to cheap video editing software, you can reduce a week and a bit of holiday to eight minutes and 38 seconds...

Humans
Domestic Dogs
Domestic Cats
Sheep
Cows
Horses (Icelandic)
Common Seals
Humpback Whales

Fulmar
Shag
Cormorant
Gannet
Brunnich's Guillemot
Common Guillemot
Oystercatcher
Ringed Plover
Golden Plover
Purple Sandpiper
Sanderling
Turnstone

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Well, not exactly wild, but certainly frisky. I've borrowed one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/KODAK-Zi6-Pocket-Camcorder-black/dp/B001U77PUA/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top from work. Can you guess why?

Anyway, to put it through its paces, I took it with me when we walked the dogs in Tavistock this evening. Lots and lots of ponies. In a way, they are Dartmoor ponies, since they're ponies and they're on Dartmoor. Really though, they're Shetlands. Anyway, lots of them either had foals or looked as if they were about to. So I filmed some, and uploaded the video to YouTube:



Incidentally, the small stone hut you can see briefly off to the left was designed by Lutyens.

The white buzzard is back. Good - haven't seen him /her in a while.

I've been working for Clare Associates today, in the large upstairs room that we still call the 'games room' (it has a dartboard and a broken Sega Dreamcast). Through the window, across the lane, I can see a field. And in that field today has been a particularly white buzzard.

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I've been away for a few days. There will now follow a selection of posts concerning what I have been doing.

These will cover such topics as flying, public transport in general, Football Manager 2008, Facebook, virtual teams, Berlin, German history, memorials, property prices, bonuses, jellyfish, American football, Wembley Stadium, Allied Carpets, crowd control, horses and jaguarundi.

If none of this is of the faintest interest, then don't bother reading further.