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Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Please contact me at email.geoverse@gmail.com if you'd like to use any of the poems.Thanks:
With thanks to my sources of inspiration: my wife and her Open University books; Horsham Geological Field Club, its speakers and field trips; my son for sharing his internet space; and, er, well, life, really.
Tag Archives: Nature
Big Garden Birdwatch
Each year in the UK, at the end of January, people are encouraged to record the maximum number of each breed of bird they see in their garden in a 1-hour period. It’s called the Big Garden Birdwatch, and the … Continue reading
Lazy ladybirds
Ladybirds are hiding behind a popular delusion. Continue reading
Posted in GeoVerse
Tagged Aphids, Insects, Ladybirds, Nature, Royal Horticultural Society
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Mistletoe
What to do about it, or with it. Continue reading
Muddled millipede
Not as simple as left, right, left, right . . . Continue reading
Wot, no cuckoo?
Should I feel glad or sad? Continue reading
Clerk of the Weather
Must be getting on a bit now – is he losing his touch? Continue reading
Run, rabbit!
Still good advice! Continue reading
Willie the worm
A sartorial lesson. Young Willie the worm Liked to wriggle and squirm As he burrowed his way through the dirt. But he wondered one day, In a worm sort of way, What life would be like in a shirt. “A … Continue reading
Slow Joe
Be careful what you wish for! Continue reading
Quack knack
Well, that’s what it seems like . . . Continue reading
The way of a worm
A word for a worm . . . Continue reading
Growing organic
Why pick on me? Continue reading
Oak and willow
Useful stuff… Continue reading
Plan of atttack
At bug HQ Continue reading
Ice and fire
A message from below Continue reading
Spring song
Life must go on… Continue reading
A lousy trick
Quantum woodlice Continue reading
Chelsea gold
A great British tradition Continue reading
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do
Methane in the air… Continue reading
On the trail of a snail
What drove it up the wall? Continue reading
The price of sex appeal
Natural selection is tough Continue reading
Sunday lunch
Eaten alive Continue reading
Hay fever
The bees’ knees Continue reading
Seeds of destruction
A solution to all your gardening problems Continue reading
Posted in GeoVerse
Tagged Decking, Gardening, Nature, Pests, Pigeons, Slugs, Snails, Tichmarsh (Alan)
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The highway toad
The dangers of rushing into sex Continue reading
To those left behind
It’s tough when the race goes to the swift Continue reading
A spider, an ant and a fly
Three sticky ends Continue reading
Genesis
Which came first? And does it matter? Continue reading
Posted in GeoVerse
Tagged Chicken, Chicken and egg, Cooking, Eggs, Nature, Points of view, Signs
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Lilies
Should they get a life? Continue reading
Weather or not
A recipe for meteorological chaos? Continue reading
Exceptions
Not all things are bright and beautiful Continue reading
Posted in GeoVerse
Tagged AIDS, Ants, Aphids, Athlete's foot, Bed-bugs, Bluebottles, BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), Bulldogs, Cancer, Canker, CJD (Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease), Club root, Crabs, Dachshunds, Diseases, Fleas, Flies, Foot-and-mouth disease, Gallstones, Gnats, Hymns, Jellyfish, Lampreys, Leeches, Lice, Locusts, ME (myalgic encephalopathy), Mealy bug, Meningitis, Mice, Moles, MS (multiple sclerosis), Nature, Nits, Oil-seed rape, Pekingese, Pests, Pigeons, Rats, Ringworm, Slugs, Spiders, Squirrels, Tonsils, Tuberculosis, Woodlice
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Earthquakes have no morals
The backside of life’s rich tapestry Continue reading