Subtle ways to tell your elephant seal that she’s not fat enough « The Oyster’s Garter
'Then I realized that ocean love and mocking sexist bullshit are two great tastes that taste great together.'
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Cardiff at night – a set on Flickr
via things magazine, some genuinely brilliant photos of people out on the piss [...]
I know it’s getting slightly late for yearly round-up posts, but hey-ho.
Best Plant
The wildflowers on the cliff-tops in Wales were quite something: gorse, foxgloves, bluebells, red campion, sea campion, thrift, kidney vetch, burnet rose, dodder, spring squill, centaury, ox-eye daisies, cowslips. It really was spectacular. So it’s really just a matter of picking a species. [...]
If you stand on the beach on Holyhead
and listen attentively,
you may hear, above the sound of surf,
an unearthly harmony.
Upon a tiny rocky islet
out of sight of land
the world’s one and only seal voice choir
are sprawled on a patch of sand;
and sometimes, when the waves are still
and the breeze is off the sea
you can pick out [...]