Author Archives: Roger Gosden
Mother’s fruitcake for Christmas and always
Family recipes are inherited like sepia photos of relatives who passed long ago, meant to savor the memories. None is more precious to me that a fruit cake. My last edition came out of the oven months before Christmas and … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Other
Tagged Captain Falcon Scott, Christmas, fruitcake, Gethsemani Abbey, Great British Baking Show
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Boat-billed Heron
Goofy looks make the Boat-billed Heron a character to remember. A lucky sighting for Inge in Costa Rica as this is a shy, nocturnal bird and a permanent resident of tropical lowland swamps and mangroves. It captures shrimp and small … Continue reading
Green Heron
December is our heron month. More common than the Little Blue shown last week, the Green Heron is another summer resident that winters in Central America and the Caribbean where some stay the year round. It, too, is becoming less … Continue reading
Peppa Pig has missed a vocation
Starved of spicy stories or constipated by covid, the British media wrote about Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bad hair day. In a speech to business leaders, he lost track of the message and, presumably to preserve poise, he ad-libbed about … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia
Tagged Animal welfare, Peppa Pig, Yorkshire pig
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Little Blue Heron
At one time, the Little Blue Heron was a common wading bird in the Coastal Plain and Eastern Shore, but it has been in steep decline since the 1950s (from habitat loss?). Local birds leave our area after breeding to … Continue reading
Posted in Inge Curtis birds, Nature
Tagged Costa Rica, Little Blue Heron
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 