Number 1
We’ve all got them, nematodes… Find out about your little known lodgers.
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Number 2
Three videos: Amazing starlings, how to do proper error bars in Excel and how to measure heights on seashores.
Number 3
The History of Dale Fort Part One. When did it all begin?
Number 4
The History of Dale Fort Part Two. What is it made of?
Number 5
A visitor from Japan.
Number 6
The History of Dale Fort Part Three. The First Humans.
Number 7
They’re small, they’re silver, they’re three tailed and you need to know about them.
Number 8
Everything you need to know about fat bellied book chewers.
Number 9
Research at Dale Fort, how seaweeds might save the world.
Number 10
Disappear into a wormhole for a few minutes, more research at Dale Fort.
Number 11
Limpets: Just why are they pointier on exposed shores? Plus a lot about their biology.
Number 12
All about Romans and a little later on St. Ann, St. Bride and St. Cadoc.
Number 13
All about St. David.
Number 14
How do you count a population that runs away and hides? Here’s how:
Number 15
Are these the most dangerous animals in the world?
Number 16
More Dale Fort History, some Normans and a couple of Henrys.
Number 17
Mice, quite cute but they don’t half waz a lot.
Number 18
Gannets, magic and Bendigeidfran on Grassholm.
Number 19
Kinds of mean and how to summarise them using beards.
Number 20
The standard deviation of the mean. Why are the mean deviant? More beardy fun.
Number 21
Welsh in ten minutes (ond ddim yn rhugl).
Number 22
There are lots of rumours about ghosts at Dale Fort. Finally, the truth is revealed (maybe).
Number 23
Continuing my simplified Excel help system, this one shows you how to do a frequency distribution.
Number 24
The storm of January 6th 2014. Including the destruction of the bridge at Castle Beach and the scaring of the photographer.
Number 25
Barnacles: So much more than just the worst aspect of a keel hauling. Learn all about them here.
Number 26
More on the history of Dale Fort. This time concerning George Owen and the Elizabethans.
Number 27
Tardigrades: I think they’re amazing and so will you.
Number 28
Who eats a pound of your skin a year? House dust mites do, not a pound each of course but en masse.
Number 29
Woodworm. They aren’t worms but beetle larvae and they want to eat your furniture.
Number 30
Spider Blog, Spider Blog, Does whatever a Spider Blog does…
Number 31
Pirates, The Civil War, The Seven Years War and the Last Invasion of Britain.
Number 32
Photosynthesis in Seaweeds. Why are they different colours?
Number 33
Rocky Shore Monitoring, mostly concerning rough winkles and channelled wrack.
Number 34
More Rocky Shore Monitoring, mostly concerning species diversity, limpets and top shells.
Number 35
Charles Greville, the defence of Milford Haven and the rise of Charles Louis Napoleon (80 cigarettes a day, the ladies of The Royal Ballet, World PingPong Champion 1843 (OK I made the last one up)).
Number 36
What is meant by “hypothesis testing statistics”? Honestly, it’s slightly more interesting than it sounds. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s also a section of some simple tests and what they do. Also, (very unusually for statistics) it’s written in English that normal people can understand.
Number 37
A visit to Skokholm Island. John Fursdon, the Skokholm Railway, a donkey, a bungalow and all manner of corking tales.
Number 38
Nadolig Llawen i bawb o Gaer Dale. Watch the video.
Number 39
Geography in The Preseli Mountains.
Number 40
Rebranding Milford Haven
Number 41
Crowded Coasts. Join Dale Fort Tutor Kim Howkes as she tells you all about St. Davids and tourism.
Number 42
Longshore Drift. Does it occur at Newgale? Find out here with students from Campion School, Essex.
Number 43
The Defence of Milford Haven and General Charles Gordon.
Number 44
Bill Ballantine, an obituary.
Number 45
Fungi, lichens and fungal music from The Ruff Winkles (Carulli, Opus 34, Largo No.6, available on CD and highly recommended).
Number 46
200 eyes, jet propulsion and sadly for them, delicious and valuable. They’re probably doomed. Stop eating them.
Number 47
A starling messenger.
Number 48
A Walk Around the Dale Peninsula Part One.
Number 49
A Walk Around the Dale Peninsula Part Two.
Number 50
Building Dale Fort, the mighty erection of the spirited contractor of Pembroke Dock.
Number 51
Some lovely motorbikes visit Dale Fort.
Lots of stuff about Stackpole and Bosherston.
Number 53
Flower Quiz: It’s multiple choice so you can guess the answers. I hope it’s moderately amusing in parts too.
Number 54
The answers to the flower quiz.
Number 55
An introduction to blowing people up in the mid 19th century.
Number 56
How to blow French people up at Dale Fort in the 1850s.
Number 57
Just how do you fire a shell through 20 inches of oak and 5 inches of iron plate? Read Blog 57 and learn how, you never know when this could come in useful.
Number 58
Another chapter from my forthcoming tome “how to do simple things using Excel in language anyone can understand”. Not a snappy title I’ll concede but still much better than the Excel help system. This one is all about ranking data.
Number 59
Marine Conservation is really simple, you just leave it alone. However, if you want it to be made more complex (governments and exploiters love doing this), here’s my effort at an explanation.
Number 60
Domestic arrangements at Dale Fort in the 1850s, further developments in Milford Haven and the world’s first guided missile (maybe).
Number 61
The Bones of Julian Cremona Part the First.
Number 62
The Bones of Julian Cremona Part the Second.
Number 63
The Bones of Julian Cremona Part the Third.
Number 64
The Zalinski Pneumatic Dynamite Torpedo Gun. If you ever want to shoot half a ton of dynamite at a ship, this is the one for you. I think Suella Braverman is considering putting in an order.
Number 65
Fresh from her ban by previous management, Nunzilla is back. Here she tells us about some common seaweeds.
Number 66
Species diversity in Milford Haven. Why it’s important, why we should look and keep looking. Why we probably won’t…
Number 67
You ‘Aint Nuthin’ but a Dale Saint. Saint Elvis.
Number 68
Dale Fort as a Private Residence. You probably had to be mad but luckily Colonel Owen Evans had just the right amount of eccentricity.
Number 69
Another mild eccentric, Mrs Lee Roberts at Dale Fort and beyond.
Number 70
Your favourite spark emitting clockwork nun with slightly dubious bladdery fun.
Number 71
Oxygen: Why so much on earth and nowhere else in the solar system?
Number 72
Nunzilla returns, she seems to be a bit obsessed with bladders. This time it’s Asophyllum nodosum.
Number 73
Seashore Flashers: Not what you think but some amazing flies.
Number 74
Nunzilla tells you how Catherine Mary Drew Baker became Queen of the Seas in Japan and how a major red seaweed industry was born.
Number 75
Dale Fort in World War Two. Part One.
Number 76
Just when you thought it was safe to drive a giant magnet over a bomb…. Dale Fort in World War Two Part Two.
Number 77
Mine Watching and poetry. The people at Dale Fort in World War Two.
Number 78
Dale Fort during World War Two Part Four. More about the people, some goats and a major shipping disaster.
Number 79
Dale Airfield and the start of The Council for the Promotion of Field Studies.
Number 80
Nunzilla’s adventures in the plankton.
Number 81
Dale Fort begins its career as a field centre.
Number 82
The Emersonian Era. Dale Fort Post Barrett.
Number 84
Dale Airfield.
Number 85
Worms are in danger. If only people liked them a bit more…
Number 86
Five Salt Marsh Plants
Number 87
Five more Salt Marsh Plants.
Number 88
The Last Five Salt Marsh Plants (for a while at least).
Number 89
An interesting brown seaweed that I contributed to a review paper on. Not only that its name sounds a bit like Thunderbirds (I do realise that that’s a reference probably lost on anyone under 60).
Number 90
What happens to three rock pools if you leave them for 26 years?
Number 91
More on those rock pools.
Number 92
The HIstory of Dale Fort Continued: The End of The Emersonian Era. The Cremonian Era Begins.
Number 93
Lichina confinis and sunspots. Can this be true?
Number 94
A Tour Around The Castle Martin Artillery Range in South Pembrokeshire.
Number 95
A Walk From West Dale Towards Marloes.
Number 96
The walk continues, this is mostly about the geology of Marloes Sands.
Number 97
The walk continues: Marloes Sands to Gateholm. Peninsula Forts and ship wrecks.
Number 98
A Visit to Nevern Part One. Pagan seduction, magic and bleeding yews.
Number 99
A Visit to Nevern Part Two. Pilgrims, witches, magic spells and how to obtain eternal bliss for a small fee.
Number 100
GIANT Christmas Quiz in celebration of 100 Blogs.
Number 101
Giant Quiz: The answers.
Number 102
A New Building at Dale Fort. Part One.
Number 103
A New Building at Dale Fort. Part Two.
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