Ourc regnant falconry goddesses, Helen Maconald and Lauren McGough, do a podcast TOGETHER at the BBC.More please! https://mobile.twitter.com/HelenJMacdonald/status/909753333317095424?p=v Full of good sense and unexpected insights-; as Helen says., only Lauren would fly an eagle because it is so SERENE. Lauren is currently in S Africa chasing drunken monkeys with a “little” male Crowned eagle. We …
Month: September 2017
Kirk in Iceland
Kirk is doing better things in Iceland than illustrating my blog– important things like eating and catching salmon and sea trout…
Slow
Apologies for being slow. The “Venom” is doingsome good, but it is a three month process and it does not cure. An attack of cramnps has really knocked me down the last couple of days..Meanwhile, word is out for a new EFECTIVE gene therapy method in Mass- a cure? We staggger from hope to hope… …
Rock and Hawk
“This gray rock, standing tall On the headland, where the seawind Lets no tree grow, Earthquake-proved, and signatured By ages of storms: on its peak A falcon has perched. I think, here is your emblem To hang in the future sky; Not the cross, not the hive, But this; bright power, dark peace; Fierce consciousness …
Taigans!
“The Blood of the Eastern Dragon!” That is how Vladimir Shakula, Russian Kazakh, former soldier, hound breeder admnisrator, scientist and alleged war criminal, described the Kyrgiz Taigan. Shakula with Himalayan Snowcock. Now Lane Bellman has bred the first US litter in NM My pick!
Venom Plus
My new and most effective drug (may halt, if not reverse, Parkinson’s “progress”) is based on a synthetic Gila monster venom. Tim already has a poem for the ‘Venom Drug”, as everybody is naturally calling it: Hope is Our Word for Elpis Stephen is taking Gila monster venom to treat the brain disease I deeply …
Our modern Mithridates cont.
… in the right amounts venom, especially neurotoxic venom, is good for you. Bill Haast of the Miami Serpentarium lived to be 101 after taking shots of venom every day. He never had a sick day in his life and survived 197 snakebites. He is a legend. I heard about Haast from my pen-friend and …
Venom 1 ; Mithridates (from A E Housman, A Shropshire Lad}
The volume used was Betsy’s ancient first edition.”Lad” has provided more titles than any other English work of art than The King Jame s version or Shakespeare, including many in Science Fiction. Reid? How about “For a breath I tarry”? I always thought his and Poul Anderson’s stoic world view had much in common There …