You Looking At Me?

Relax

It's the weekend. At last! Today's post shows us just how we should be behaving between now and Monday morning.

Of all nature's creatures, it is cats who have taken relaxation and turned it into an art form. On his recent African Adventure, Phil discovered this fierce pride of lions showing off their relaxations skills.

Cleanliness is of course important when relaxing, though I'll pass on this one (as I don't have anyone to lick) and soak in a long, hot bath instead.

So … Let this be your instruction booklet for the next couple of days.

Having said that, I'm so wired on coffee after Breakfast Club that I can't relax, which is just as well as I have returned from the market with turbot fillets and herring for the weekend and a whole turbot carcass, onions, carrots, fennel and celery for the pot and I'm stinking the house out making fish stock. Yummy!

Enjoy your weekends, folks.

Carmine

A convocation of carmine bee eaters.
"Say, guys; what shall we have for lunch?"
"How about bees?"
"Great idea!"

These little guys are easy to photograph when they're sitting still …

… Trickier when they're on the wing. Yay, Phil for capturing this shot.

Basics of Automobile Design

Another portrait from Phil's African Adventure.

Much as I love the old "Who needs designers? Just lay a book down flat, put a wheel at each corner and call it an Impala" early sixties classic Chevy, I do wonder if anyone at Chevrolet has ever actually looked at an impala.
Sluggish, wallowing, table-top-shaped, gas-guzzling rust-buckets they are not.

Hey, Guys; Let's Lollop!

Your task for today: describe in your own words precisely how silly giraffes look when they run.

A Note On Mealtime Etiquette

It is probably not a good idea to drive your jeep too close to a half-eaten warthog carcass …

… unless you want to seriously piss off the local dining clientele.

"Bloody tourists! Get away from my dinner!"

"Sheesh! They drive into my restaurant …

… try to steal my yummy warthog …

… point their bloody cameras at me like I'm some dumb celebrity …

 … I'm going to find another table."

WTF Monday - Water Buck

Phil's just back from Tanzania, where he discovered - among other things - why water buck are so named.
Captions, please …

A select selection of postcards from darkest Africa to follow over the next few posts, courtesy of my little brother and his spiffy new camera (Canon EOS60D, like mine, only with the bigger lens, dammit).

If Only Life Were That Sweet

Saturday Statuary - Snowballs

Meanwhile … back at the Cambridge Genome Research Facility, aliens have landed …

… and are very surprised by the cold snow against their bottoms.

Frabjous Friday

Well, the snow's gone … Now we're just left with floods, biting cold and gale force winds.
Until this evening, when Norfolk's due to get another load of snow dumped on us.
O frabjous day, etc.