Rosemary beetle

Thanks to The Sunday Times (newspaper, available at all good newsagents, just £2), in whose Home>Gardening Reader's Question section I found out about this little critter today. Not surprisingly, it is no longer resident on my rosemary bush...

Mercedes heads for the Highlands

Times Online reports on the retirement of 27-year-old Mercedes, Britain's only polar bear, to her new home in Kingussie. She joins her former fellow Edinburgh Zoo residents, the red pandas and the Amur Tigers, who are all enjoying the colder climate of the Scottish Highlands. The new polar bear enclosure, which is the size of four football pitches, is the largest in the world by bear-to-space ratio. Canadian-born Mercedes has a life expectancy of three more years in which to enjoy her new-found freedom (of sorts).

Video from the edge of Space

Balloon Experiments with Amateur Radio (BEAR). Watch Hi-Def video here from a camera suspended below a balloon disappear to the edge of Space and back down to Earth. Watch the story on Discovery Channel Daily Planet.

Easter daffodils in Glasgow

Spring visitors to Glasgow are greeted by a mass of daffodils across the city. Above photo taken in the Botanical Gardens. 

Phenological signs of Spring...

The first crocus flower head blossomed in our back garden this week, along with a daffodil head or two in the front garden, just in time for St David's Day tomorrow.

It's still freezing fractals in London