Following the Natural World programme The Last Lions of India on BBC2 TV last Wednesday, 18 October was a ten minute film Stoats of Kedleston Hall (Derbyshire).
It followed a family of stoats, one of the most elusive of British mammals, from winter to spring.
It was a delightful film during which an ermine* was shown, which I don't think I've ever seen before.

Browsing Airliners.net as I regularly do I came across this animal tail which is a wonderful image of an ermine*.

[*an ermine is a stoat during the winter months when its normal brown fur coat has turned white]

Jenny has long been a blog friend of mine. Firstly on 20six and now on blogspot.com.

She did an entry last Monday, 16 October Download a free novel where as you'll see she's inviting anyone interested to do just that with her novel

is not until next Tuesday, 24 October.

However it is being celebrated today over on his blog.

Anyone reading this is more than welcome to stop by over there and join in the fun.

EthelRed did an entry last Friday Fiscal football all about old postcards.

Earlier this evening I came across Airport Postcards which shows vintage postcards of airports in the US before the Second World War.

is today with the theme Identity.

The National Library for the Blind is the charity I support and this poem seems befitting of both the theme  and  this good cause.

I Asked the Little Boy Who Cannot See [anon.]

I asked the little boy who cannot see,
'And what is colour like?'
'Why green,' said he,
'Is like the rustle when the wind blows through
The forest; running water, that is blue;
And red is like a trumpet sound; and pink
Is like the smell of roses; and I think
That purple must be like a thunderstorm;
And yellow is like something soft and warm;
And white is a pleasant stillness when you lie
And dream.'

I have done poems on Flighty and BookBuffs, both of which have links to blog friends such as Feathers and Henk who have also done poems.

Have a good National Poetry Day!

internationally recognised as Breast Cancer Awareness month.

In America  Delta Air Lines has painted up a Boeing 757 in Breast Cancer Awareness colours.

search engine is