Croome
The Boy Wonder is living a peripatetic existence at the moment. The builders who’ve spent the last few weeks constructing a roof extension on his house have now reached the point at which they need to knock through into the … Continued
Three generations
Starting at 5.45am with the piping alarm call, “Granma! GRANMA!”, the Boy Wonder and his maternal oldies had a busy and fun-filled morning: breakfast, car ride with singing, Stratford playground, feeding of swans and geese on the Avon (no ducks … Continued
Multitasking
So it’s not only women who can do two things at once. I saw this hairy-footed flower bee fly into the dead-nettle patch, and stood at the edge of the flower bed, camera poised, waiting for him to come back … Continued
Criminal tendencies
Back in the C19th it was fashionable to believe that you could tell what kind of personality someone had, or how they might behave, by looking at their facial features (physiognomy) and measuring their skull (phrenology). An Italian professor of … Continued
Great bustard
I got up at oh-no-surely-not-hundred hours this morning, to drive to Wiltshire for a wildlife photography workshop on Salisbury Plain. This was set up by the RPS Nature Group, and was run by Robert Harvey, ably assisted by Alan Benson. … Continued