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We were keeping up with our Aussie showjumping friends at alliedequine.com when we noticed a sale closer to home. A “strong colt” has become available in the North Yorkshire area for a “negotiable” price. Enquiries to ADMIN at ALLIEDEQUINE dot com (convert this into the usual e-mail format, we are just trying to avoid spam). [...]

Living in Wensleydale we see a lot of sheep. Behind our house there are some very tame texels meaning that we can get some fairly decent close-ups. The little lambs are taking it easy these days - the sheep equivalent of teenagers. Lazing around in the balmy sunshine - a welcome break after their introduction [...]

Hardraw waterfall is the tallest single drop, above ground, waterfall in England. It is also the waterfall under which Kevin Costner’s bum double swam in front of Maid Marion in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The naked swim scene is famed for being the moment when Maid Marion first sees her future husband. The waterfall [...]

Whilst visiting Hardraw Waterfall behind the Green Dragon pub in Upper Wensleydale, we spotted some tawny owl chicks. I had whistled in an attempt to startle some sitting rabbits in a field nearby, because my little cousin couldn’t quite see them. However, the loud noise had the inadvertent effect of startling two adult tawny owls [...]

Elephants sleep lying down - I never knew that until today. Apparently they take a Thatcheresque 3-4 hours on a night, but young ‘uns sometimes nap during the day and their mothers have to wake them up.
Tourists often report dead elephants that are in fact taking a leisurely forty winks.

Patron Saint of England
St George’s cross is a red cross on a white background, is the flag of England, and part of the British flag. St George’s emblem was adopted by Richard The Lion Heart and brought to England in the 12th century. The king’s soldiers wore it on their tunics to avoid confusion in [...]

Obviously, this is long overdue. We need an update on the badger situation. Things are getting rife.
Last week, we reported that badger attacks on frogs were a strangely fluctuating phenomenon, and we were right. However, on Tuesday we went to the lake district, and en route we witnessed not one, but two slayed badgers, fallen [...]

Here’s the view from the bottom of Wensleydale - Canada geese in the warm green fields along with sheep, against a backdrop of snowy hills. This was taken whilst on a run from West Witton to Wensley through the Bolton Estate over Lord’s Bridge. The beauty of this route is that it almost entirely off-road [...]

Badgers attacking frogs - we all know it happens, but how frequently?
We collated the data, which makes some interesting viewing - there’s millions of unreported badger attacks on frogs each year, so obviously, this cannot be considered a conclusive study:

Click on the graph to see it in full size.

We considered sending this in to You’ve Been Framed, but decided to put it on the blog instead -and a year later we managed it.
I think this bird saw itself in the windows and mirror of our car and first tried to woo itself