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Welcome to Lachlan Cranswick's Personal Homepage in Melbourne, Australia

Summer 2000 at Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, England

Belatedly Celebrating Scottdroid's Birthday at a Don Pino alternative sort of living like a king session - and twilight flowers/scenes along Daresbury Lane - Monday 17th July 2000

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As every local knows, the English skies are always blue and beautiful Daisy (Bellis perennis)

  1. As every local knows, the English skies are always blue and beautiful
  2. Daisy (Bellis perennis)

Daisy (Bellis perennis) Moorhen scouting around the lab

  1. Daisy (Bellis perennis)
  2. Moorhen scouting around the lab

Moorhen scouting around the lab

  1. Moorhen scouting around the lab

Time to start moving toward Don Pino's Impulse Engines activated

  1. Time to start moving toward Don Pino's
  2. Impulse Engines activated

What is this sign? Camera Shutter speed is obviously very fast

  1. What is this sign?
  2. Camera Shutter speed is obviously very fast

Into Daresbury village to find the remaining troops Warp Engines Engage!

  1. Into Daresbury village to find the remaining troops
  2. Warp Engines Engage!

At this warp factor, the fabric of the universe is threatened - but Don Pino calls Hatton Arms Restaurant is closed on Mondays

  1. At this warp factor, the fabric of the universe is threatened - but Don Pino calls
  2. Hatton Arms Restaurant is closed on Mondays

Field Forgetmenots (Myosotis sylvatica) Field Forgetmenots (Myosotis sylvatica)

  1. Picking up the remaining troops for dinner and photographing Field Forgetmenots (Myosotis sylvatica)
  2. Picking up the remaining troops for dinner and photographing Field Forgetmenots (Myosotis sylvatica)

Past the Cat and Lion on the way to Stockton Heath Past the Cat and Lion on the way to Stockton Heath

  1. Past the Cat and Lion on the way to Stockton Heath
  2. Past the Cat and Lion on the way to Stockton Heath

Stockton Heath - where Don Pino's restaurant may be found The Hilal restaurant in Stockton Heath

  1. Stockton Heath - where Don Pino's restaurant may be found
  2. The Hilal restaurant in Stockton Heath

The Hilal restaurant in Stockton Heath Hurrah! - we arrive at Don Pino's

  1. The Hilal restaurant in Stockton Heath
  2. Hurrah! - we arrive at Don Pino's

The Victoria Hotel - a legend amongst Daresbury Hostel users The Victoria Hotel - a legend amongst Daresbury Hostel users

  1. The Victoria Hotel - a legend amongst Daresbury Hostel users
  2. The Victoria Hotel - a legend amongst Daresbury Hostel users

After seeing the troops (including Scottdroid) safely to a booze session at the Hatton Arms. Time for a summer evening walk back to the lab. The Hedges along the road are supposedly "Assarts" (Ancient Hedge Boundaries)

Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) Bramble/Blackberry flower (Rubus fruticosus agg)

  1. Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)
  2. Bramble/Blackberry flower (Rubus fruticosus agg)

Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca) Cloud and meadow scape

  1. Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca)
  2. Cloud and meadow scape

Cloud and meadow scape Burnet Rose (Rosa pimpinellifolia)

  1. Cloud and meadow scape
  2. Burnet Rose (Rosa pimpinellifolia)

Cloud and meadow scape Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

  1. Cloud and meadow scape
  2. Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

Rosebay Willowherb (Chamerion angustifolium) Digitalis Purpurea (ordinary wild foxglove)

  1. Rosebay Willowherb (Chamerion angustifolium)
  2. Digitalis Purpurea (ordinary wild foxglove)

Oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) (syn. Chrysanthemum leucanthemum) Cloud and meadow scape

  1. Oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) (syn. Chrysanthemum leucanthemum)
  2. Cloud and meadow scape

Great Willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum) Unsure

  1. Great Willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum)
  2. Unsure

Unsure Common Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea)

  1. Unsure
  2. Common Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea)

Smooth Sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) Smooth Sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus)

  1. Smooth Sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus)
  2. Smooth Sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus)

Smooth Sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium)

  1. Smooth Sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus)
  2. Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium)

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris)

  1. Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
  2. Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris)

White Clover/Dutch Clover (Trifolium repens) Creeping Thistle (Cirsium arvense)

  1. White Clover/Dutch Clover (Trifolium repens)
  2. Creeping Thistle (Cirsium arvense)

Road to Daresbury Cloud and meadow scape

  1. Road to Daresbury
  2. Cloud and meadow scape

Rosebay Willowherb (Chamerion angustifolium) Church and NSF Tower

  1. Rosebay Willowherb (Chamerion angustifolium)
  2. Daresbury All Saints Church and NSF Tower

Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus) Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus)

  1. Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus)
  2. Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus)

Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus) Cows of Daresbury

  1. Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus)
  2. Cows of Daresbury

White Campion (Silene alba) Large-Flowered Evening Primrose (Oenothera glazoviana)

  1. White Campion (Silene alba)
  2. Large-Flowered Evening Primrose (Oenothera glazoviana)

Large-Flowered Evening Primrose (Oenothera glazoviana)

  1. Large-Flowered Evening Primrose (Oenothera glazoviana)

1915 (Robert Graves)

"I'VE watched the Seasons passing slow, so slow,
In the fields between La Bassée and Bethune;
Primroses and the first warm day of Spring,
Red poppy floods of June,
August, and yellowing Autumn, so
To Winter nights knee-deep in mud or snow,
And you've been everything.

Dear, you've been everything that I most lack
In these soul-deadening trenches--pictures, books,
Music, the quiet of an English wood,
Beautiful comrade-looks,
The narrow, bouldered mountain-track,
The broad, full-bosomed ocean, green and black,
And Peace, and all that's good."

(Refer: ALCS -
The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society:
http://www.alcs.co.uk)
 

This England

"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
 This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
 This other Eden, demi-paradise,
 This fortress built by Nature for herself
 Against infection and the hand of war,
 This happy breed of men, this little world,
 This precious stone set in the silver sea...
 This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."


 William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, 
 Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1 
 (JOHN OF GAUNT (Duke of Lancaster) speaks)

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