October 31, 2009 at 3:34 pm (Lady of the Waters, Land of Britain, Nautilus Project)
I couldn’t resist including this beautiful painting of a mermaid by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John William Waterhouse from the Wikipedia Commons. British folklore generally regards sighting of a mermaid to be unlucky and this one certainly has something of the femme fatal about her. I hope people don’t feel she’s too ominous a presence in the light of my previous post on the threat of coastal flooding !
June 6, 2009 at 2:09 pm (Lady of the Waters, News & Updates)
Boris Johnson embraces the Lady of the Waters
The London Mayor’s adventures in South East London waters this week prompts me to update the profile for Lady of the Waters as follows :
This project is concerned with the well-being of the freshwater environment, and habitats connected to lakes, ponds, rivers and streams, together with the biodiversity and health of life which depends upon these, including human’s “Taking the Waters”.
