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Sideeye

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Back up in Sheffield and with access to the internet and a PC to use it on, I’ve chucked the photos from the last week up onto Flickr:

Biggness here.

Highlights of the last week have been numerous, but have included the London Eye and the Hyde Park Winter Wonderland – both expensive, but both well worth it. The great thing about London is that once you’re there, you can just go from one landmark to the next – there’s something to see around every corner, and even when it’s not something overtly famous, there’s still something. You can see why Brian Micklethwait populates BrianMicklethwaitDotCom with images, because there’s always something interesting to pop a shot .

All in all, it’s been a great family holiday, which is exactly what we were needing. Sadly, we’re into our last week here. This time next Sunday, we’ll be back into Cape Town already and the kids will be thoroughly involved with the beagle. But there’s still a lot to fit in, including a pub quiz this evening and a Slutty Rutty Butty tomorrow.

We also need to go to Castleford. It’s somewhere I’ve never been before, and frankly, it’s rather scary.

Photos up

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For those who have been eagerly awaiting some photos from our trip, they’re now available on Flickr.

Look, it’s winter and it’s cold, but we have already had a few nice days and today isn’t looking too bad either.

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But the cold and the winter is what we’re here for, so that’s just perfect.

Today: a bit of local industrial heritage at the Kelham Island Museum in town. Tomorrow, some Viking stuff in York.

Holiday Snaps

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Not mine, you’ll be pleased to hear. No. These are from the Rosetta holiday mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. There’s nothing particularly remarkable about these photos, save for the fact that they were ever even taken at all.

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You can surf through a couple of hundred pics, all the while marvelling that you’re looking at images taken on a piece of space rock moving at thousands of kilometres an hour, some half a billion kilometres from Earth.

It’s all rather humbling.

Bathing Bishop

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We went to Intaka Island Nature Reserve this weekend, and it’s something I’d completely recommend to families with kids. Ours (and their friend) loved the boat trip, loved climbing on the old steam engines and enjoyed the walk through the reserve. Although they also got into ticking the birds and other animals we saw off their list, the whole sitting quietly and still and watching thing wasn’t for them so much. Perhaps that’s why I didn’t get many decent photos or perhaps I’m just looking for an excuse. Anyway, in a very average collection of pics, at least this one of a Southern Red Bishop (Euplectes orix) bucked the trend a little.

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Maybe I need to go back again with a little more time and a little less child – there were some amazing birds there: Reed Cormorants, Purple Heron, Pin-tailed Whydahs and even a Little Bittern and chick, (which I didn’t quite get to see but spoke to a lady that did).

That’s almost the same, right?

Don Pettit ISS startrails shot

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While Chemical Engineer Dr Don Pettit was up on the ISS doing Chemical Engineering stuff, he also did some photography. And wow.

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Those yellow streaks are city lights as the ISS speeds over the surface of the earth, and the blue/white flares are lightning. The white vertical stripes in the distance are star trails.

There’s a bit more to this image than simple long exposure, but fortunately, Doc Pettit has also done a video so that when you’re up in space, you’ll be able to recreate his work. In the meantime, go and have a look at the Flickr album with the rest of his amazing photos.