Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Monday, 7 November 2016

Planet Earth

I got round to watching the first episode of David Attenborough’s new natural history series and was not disappointed by the procession of startling images and stories (the latter surely fabricated to some extent to fit the pictures) – a swimming sloth in search of a mate, a tree that kills birds, crazy ants that devour crabs, wrestling komodo dragons, racer snakes pursuing baby marine iguanas (this looked like a CGI enhanced scene from Indiana Jones as the predators emerged from the rocks and just swarmed – it really should have carried a health warning for ophidiophobes), and a finale featuring plucky penguins; even the ten minute diary feature at the end showing the film crew at work on the penguin island was a treat. 

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