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Wolf Watch UK was established in 1993 by founder Tony Haighway, whose initial involvement with wolf conservation started with the rescue of a pair of wolves from a closing zoo in Warwickshire. From these small beginnings, Wolf Watch UK has gone on to provide sanctuary for over thirty displaced wolves to date. Our wolves normally arrive here as a consequence of: dominance fights, zoo closures or excess breeding. Without our help many of these magnificent animals would have probably been euthanised.
July 2011.
Hitting the tourist highspots of London Borough of Sutton.
Whitehall was built around 1500 as a yeoman farmer’s house.
A small olive-brown warbler which actively flits through trees and shrubs, with a distinctive tail-wagging movement. Less bright than the similar willow warbler and readily distinguished by its song, from where it gets its name. Picks insects from trees and also flies out to snap them up in flight
Euphorbias in dry garden near greenhouse at Savill Gardens, Surrey, UK
Dry Gardens in England: Interest in ‘dry’ gardens has grown considerably over the past few years. Although people often view England as a ‘green and pleasant land’ with plentiful rainfall, this is not always the case. The east of the country is much, much drier than the west and in recent years much of Eastern England was subject to a ban on using hosepipes for garden irrigation. Weather patterns in the country seem to be getting more extreme and in 1996 the annual rainfall in the East Anglia region was less than that in Jerusalem or Beirut! These changes in weather patterns have stimulated gardener’s interest in growing more drought tolerant plants - which never need irrigation.
Many of the plants suited to dry gardens, such as Giant Verbascums, Perennial Grasses and Euphorbias also provide the garden with bold architectural statements giving all year round interest. When they have finished flowering many drought tolerant plants have stems and seed heads which look good and hold up well even when the first frosts arrive.
The hardiness rating of many plants also seems to be extended in dry garden conditions too. In these conditions plants seem better able to tolerate the cold winters as long as their roots don’t get waterlogged .
So, dry gardens really offer many advantages – no irrigation, some great architectural plants, a long season of interest, better hardiness rating and relatively low maintenance too. The other bonus is that plants that are happy in these conditions will often self-seed and propagate freely. With all these benefits I am sure we will be seeing many more dry gardens in the UK in the coming years!
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Of course I'm always going to be a bit biased if the sun is out, but Cromer seemed like a really picturesque place. We'd hired a cottage just inland so we visited a few times during our weeks stay in Norfolk last Summer.
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In the early 1970's we were driving around in UK. I wish I could live here in the ancient city of Canterbury. I loved to hear the bells of the cathedral.
Postcard, UK, 60s/70s,
Strange picture, it shows half a building and a bridge.
In Martin Parr's"Postcards" (2008) you'll find a nice interior of the Top Rank Motorport.
We were on the UK Sylvanian Families store. Just a paradise to the Sylvanian fans or just for all who loves toys.
I wish we can go to the store again someday.
Ah, el Reino Unido, uno de esos soleados países mediterraneos... bueno, al menos si consideramos Gibraltar! Puerto estratégico ganado a España tras la Guerra de Sucesión y hasta hoy tema altamente sensible políticamente hablando para muchos españoles, es en cualquier caso un lugar francamente curioso. Famoso por sus monos, su duty free y por tener uno de los aeropuertos más extraños del mundo, cuya pista de aterrizaje hay que cruzar, incluso a pié, para entrar en la ciudad.
Ah UK, one of those sunny southern Europe countries... at least considering Gibraltar aka "the Rock"! A strategic port won to Spain after the war of Spanish Succession and until today sensible political matter for many Spaniards, it is however quite a curious place, famous for its monkeys, duty free shopping and one of the weirdest airports in the world (you have to cross the landing track, even by foot, to enter the city).
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Birmingham (Listeni/ˈbɜrmɪŋəm/, locally /ˈbɜrmɪŋɡəm/) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside London with 1,085,400 residents (2012 estimate),[2] and its population increase of 88,400 residents between 2001 and 2011 was greater than that of any other British local authority.[3] The city lies within the West Midlands Built-up Area, the third most populous built-up area in the United Kingdom with a population of 2,440,986 (2011 census).[4] Birmingham's metropolitan area is the United Kingdom's second most populous with 3,683,000 residents.[5]
A medium-sized market town during the medieval period, Birmingham grew to international prominence in the 18th century at the heart of the Midlands Enlightenment and subsequent Industrial Revolution, which saw the town at the forefront of worldwide developments in science, technology and economic organisation, producing a series of innovations that laid many of the foundations of modern industrial society.[6] By 1791 it was being hailed as "the first manufacturing town in the world".[7] Birmingham's distinctive economic profile, with thousands of small workshops practising a wide variety of specialised and highly skilled trades, encouraged exceptional levels of creativity and innovation and provided a diverse and resilient economic base for industrial prosperity that was to last into the final quarter of the 20th century.[8] Its resulting high level of social mobility also fostered a culture of broad-based political radicalism, that under leaders from Thomas Attwood to Joseph Chamberlain was to give it a political influence unparalleled in Britain outside London and a pivotal role in the development of British democracy.[9]
Today Birmingham is a major international commercial centre, ranked as a beta− world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network;[10] and an important transport, retail, events and conference hub. Its metropolitan economy is the second largest in the United Kingdom with a GDP of $114.3bn (2012 est., PPP),[11] and its six universities make it the largest centre of higher education and academic research in the country outside London.[12] Birmingham's major cultural institutions – including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Library of Birmingham and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts – enjoy international reputations,[13] and the city has vibrant and influential grassroots art, music, literary and culinary scenes.[14]
People from Birmingham are called 'Brummies', a term derived from the city's nickname of 'Brum'. This originates from the city's dialect name, Brummagem,[15] which may in turn have been derived from one of the city's earlier names, 'Bromwicham'.[16] There is a distinctive Brummie accent and dialect.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham