Mendel's nightmare

 

Some nights Gregor woke up all the other monks with his screams.

 

 

The father of modern genetics, Gregor Mendel is such an admirable figure, growing 29,000 pea plants in his monastery garden and observing colour (green or yellow), skins (wrinkled or smooth) and other characteristics. He discovered precise rules of inheritance - a dream come true. But what if.......

 

Rocks in Dorset

 

When I see rocks like this I try to imagine the volcanic force that caused the upthrust - impossible to conceive of its power.

Not tonight, Joseph

Sometimes a girl just has to say, "No."

My little friends

 

I have recently had a massive invasion of mice. Someone left a bird fat ball in the scullery, the result being a family of HUGE plump rodents settling in. The smell of next door's cat did not seem to bother them in the slightest but, thanks to a humane trap, they are all now happily established in the garden compost heap.

Lizard

 

When I see a lizard I feel that time has suddenly reversed by thousands of years - almost like meeting a dinosaur.

The Daffodils speak out

 

Looming too near our jocund crowd,

Stood Wordsworth, muttering aloud.

No one could catch Testudo graeca when he put a spurt on

 

I simply cannot resist posting some of my drawings and cartoons.  There will be more to come in the future.