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Mountains of Work
Richard Bell’s Wild West Yorkshire nature diary, Tuesday, 8th December 2009
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I’VE BEEN LOOKING forward to testing out Bryce 6 on my new computer and, as always when I install a 3D landscape program, I pop in a terrain, a water plane and a cloud plane and come up with a desert island but by coincidence an almost identical sea stack appeared briefly on David Attenborough’s Horizon film How Many People Can the Earth Support?, a survey that wasn’t all gloom and doom as you might expect but showed that we’re beginning to address the problems with our customary human ingenuity.
The sea stack in the film had a frosting of snowy white sea birds nesting on it, so the next question might be How Many Gannets Can the Sea Stack Support?, the answer to which must run into the thousands if not tens of thousands.
The Three Nuns
Here are three characters from my Walks in Robin Hood’s Yorkshire, the Three Nuns carved above the door of the public house of the same name near Kirklees Park, once the site of Kirklees Priory where Robin was bled to death by the Prioress. To be bled was a regular treatment for many ailments, particularly inflammation and I guess that, as today, there was always a chance that the treatment would go wrong.
However all the Robin Hood ballads blame the Prioress, along with co-
Each character I come across in my research I feel I could devote a whole booklet to. The nuns of Kirklees certainly have a story to tell.
Rendering a 3D scene is a time-
