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A little while ago I comment on how I had yet to edit the photos I had taken before Christmas when visiting my father in Cornwall - Photos that I still haven’t edited.

Enjoying my first full day in Cornwall I have added about another 700 photos to the queue, but despite being at the back of the queue. I have already given them a quick edit down to about 100 photos which I will try and get put up on here shortly.

All the photos were taken down at Widemouth Bay whilst I helped my father take the dogs for a walk and whilst one of the dogs wasn’t particularly obliging, the other was a right poser as you can see above.

I’ll put a link up to the gallery just as soon as I can get the photos up - Due to the vagaries of the Internet at my Dad’s I can’t get access to my website and so I am having to type this up elsewhere and so can’t upload them all at the moment.

Back in December I visited my father at his new home on the Devonshire coast and I took quite a few photos, however for one reason and another - The main one being that I am putting off trying to learn to use a new photo editing programme called GIMP.

Still I am detirmined to get round to it at some point, preferably before I visit him next month and add to my backlog of photos to be edited, until then here is a photo of his dogs.

All of the photos I took whilst I were in Bude were taken whilst I was out dog walking with my dad and so here’s a photo of them all ignoring the camera.

Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to the beach I go. I do have a reason for visiting the beach when it’s cold and wet however, or rather my father who I am visiting provided me with one - Walking the dogs.  Rather handily though I only required one hand to hold on to the dog and so I could wield my camera in the other.

My only annoyance, was that the subject of my photos was landscapes, a theme I have never really got on with. Still I did my best to remember the rules I was taught as a kid like 1/3 sky and 2/3 land, whilst wishing I had a polarising filter and took more photos in an hour than I’ve taken in the past few weeks.

Guess what I’ll be putting up here during the week…

At work today for some reason I wound up talking about poisons and the advantages of certain poisons as opposed to others - After all, if you are prepared to murder someone you might not want to inflict a quick and painless death.

One such example of a poison easily to hand I used as an example was nicotine. A cigar contains more than enough nicotine to kill a person if it were to be injected into them rather than smoked (where most of it is just burnt off rather than inhaled), obviously part of the issue is distilling it into a “useful” form. Once distilled though it’s quite handy. It can be absorbed through the skin so it could potentially be used as a contact poison.

So that’s another way cigarettes can kill.

Unlike the blue poison dart frog, who can be slightly poisonous but not enough to prove fatal - Most poison dart frogs aren’t actually that poisonous and ones kept as pets even less so. Poison dart frogs don’t make their own poison they get it from their food and so in captivity they don’t get the right foods to allow them to become poisonous, so the one pictured above from the Horniman Museum is perfectly harmless.

Even in the wild where they are toxic the idea behind it is to just leave a foul taste in the mouth of anything that tries to eat it rather than kill anything that tries to eat it. Out of over 170 species of poison dart frog only a few have actually been documented as used for poisoning darts.

Although I would like to ask if the artist has any basis for the claim, or if he is just claim is based on a logical progression based on the starting point of elephants never forgetting?