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Apparently there's a whale making its way up the Thames... (I do love the caption on the picture.) It appears to be healthy, and is a toothed whale of some sort:

Liz Sandeman, a marine mammal medic, went out on a boat to examine the animal and said it looked like either a pilot whale or a Risso's dolphin.

After her close encounter with the creature, she said: "It looks quite healthy and quite relaxed. It's breathing normally and its weight seems good.

I don't quite get this quote from the piece.

There was no immediate comment from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott.

Is he now Minister for Whales?

[Update:]


Picture from the BBC story.

I wonder if it'll get to Putney.

Mosses on a wall. Playing with a 1cm macro on a Ricoh GX8.

Putney, London
January 2006

I'm in the middle of uploadng our honeymoon photos of New Zealand to Flickr - and here's a mosaic of a few images from North and South Islands.

1. Turbulence, 2. Huka Falls, 3. Huka Falls, 4. Peaceful streams, 5. Reflections, 6. Floating the pebbles, 7. Lake and Sky, 8. Rangitikei River Mokai Canyon, 9. Rangitikei River Mokai Canyon, 10. Rangitikei River Mokai Canyon, 11. Mount Ruapehu, 12. Volcano!, 13. Tasman Sunset, 14. Tasman Sunset, 15. Wellington Beaches, 16. Take off!, 17. Wellington Peninsula sea scape, 18. Caution! Penguins!, 19. Wellington Loos, 20. Te Papa Bridges, 21. Sleepervan at Marfell's Beach, 22. Marfell's Beach, 23. Thar she blows!, 24. Shearwater at sea, 25. Silver sea, grey skies, 26. Bedroom views, 27. Kaikoura sunset, 28. Into the bush, 29. South Island coastline, 30. Basking, 31. Seal pup, 32. Kaikoura Landscape, 33. Limestone in the sun, 34. Inside the rockpool, 35. Kaikoura Sunset, 36. Kaikoura Sunset

Only 36 of 127 images (with more to come!)