tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post5988134929845562710..comments2024-03-28T20:29:39.377+00:00Comments on Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park birds: Ralph Hancockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-78947251386556572021-06-09T05:52:16.139+01:002021-06-09T05:52:16.139+01:00Thanks. Always relieved to get confirmation of my ...Thanks. Always relieved to get confirmation of my ignorant guesses.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-75340467103084295682021-06-09T05:44:33.067+01:002021-06-09T05:44:33.067+01:00Definitely Tree Bumblebee-possibly the most distin...Definitely Tree Bumblebee-possibly the most distinctive of our bumblebees.<br /><br />Nice to see the Common Blue Damselflies too.Conehead54https://www.blogger.com/profile/18423862602236191493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-54509361042912335982021-06-09T03:42:33.683+01:002021-06-09T03:42:33.683+01:00No bathing is 'allowed' at all, except for...No bathing is 'allowed' at all, except for the activities of the Serpentine Swimming Club, who are still permitted their traditional bathe between 6 and 9.30 am -- strictly for members only. In the pre-coup world, in summer the Lido swimming area was fenced off and people had to pay to bathe there under the gaze of an official lifeguard.<br /><br />These were just ordinary people who were hot and wanted to cool off. As it happens, they were French, but young English people are behaving in just the same way.<br /><br />The widespread ignoring of crazy regulations is our only hope of restoring normal life without serious violence, so I'm all for it. And if the misery merchants who pretend to rule us get the Lido closed down, there's the whole of the rest of the lake shore to use.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-19177234510143515042021-06-09T03:33:41.513+01:002021-06-09T03:33:41.513+01:00No, I didn't see this. If a large number of &#...No, I didn't see this. If a large number of 'travellers' with horses had turned up in the park it would have had a wider impact in the real world. Viewing the government-controlled mainstream media with the proper scepticism, it looks like an account of a small incident bigged up to maintain the desirable panic.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-34820374062780272992021-06-09T00:30:22.827+01:002021-06-09T00:30:22.827+01:00Is bathing with ordinary clothes on allowed? The p...Is bathing with ordinary clothes on allowed? The police here would march you straight to the police station for that (if you're a native, that is).<br /><br />I hope we get the Bumblebee identification confirmed. I had never seen this one before.TinĂºvielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794275230697959519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-33888373519828903002021-06-08T23:24:03.562+01:002021-06-08T23:24:03.562+01:00A report of travellers bathing their horses in the...A report of travellers bathing their horses in the Serpentine and also racing them on a cyclepath <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9665601/Mother-confronted-travellers-riding-horses-Serpentine-describes-terrifying-ordeal.html" rel="nofollow">on Saturday</a>, did you see any of this? JimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com