Perhaps I am stretching it slightly with the title because this bird, a Manadarin Duck, was on the edge of the Leeds Liverpool Canal this morning which is the wrong side of the river for Robert’s Park. They are very ornate and this photo does not do it justice. The stripes on the sides, like…

Erica has tweeted, posted to Facebook and blogged about gender stereotyping in the past but this is a first for me. I would have thought that M&S would have known better than this. Here is a nice big magnet IDEAL FOR LITTLE HANDS but then they go and put BOY STUFF on the opposite corner…

I don’t go into Leeds very often so there is always things I have not noticed before. Going with Lucy meant that I went on slightly different paths. These reflections in The Bourse off Boar Lane looked good. As usual you can click on the image to see it larger on Flickr. I am going…

Two winters ago we had loads of Bramblings in our garden. Last winter I did not see one. But this morning there is one on our feeder. I wonder if we will get the numbers that we had before? Here’s one on the feeder with a Goldfinch And on its own Still birdie related –…

I am £1.75 richer today without having to feel down between sofa cushions. Today our washing machine (a Hotpoint BWM129 for those who might come here via a Google search when they have a problem) decided to not empty and flashed the Door Locked, Rinse Hold and Super Wash lights at us. A quick Google…

As I often do on a weekend I went out with my camera half thinking I might go somewhere different but after a drive over Baildon Moor and seeing that the long distance views were a bit hazy I went down to the river and Denso Marston Nature Reserve. It looks as though they are…

I am still looking for a decent shot of a Goldcrest but in the meantime the trout are still trying to get up the weir at Robert’s Park. So this lunch-time – no Goldcrest but I did watch the trout for a few minutes. You can see my original post about Trout on the weir…

Sorry, no photos in this posting. I have now been hosting, managing, maintaining, posting to and otherwise looking after the Baildon Village website and the Baildon wiki since 2006 but I don’t know how much longer that might be if Baildon Parish Council set their website up to be The Community Portal as suggested in…

Just gone 8:00 on Saturday morning, 20 Oct, I was down at the Denso Marston Nature Reserve for the talk and walk by Steve about VisMig – the recording of the visible migration of birds. Though the other side of the river was shrouded in mist the sky was reasonably clear so Steve started telling…