Insouciant
The sun came back out today, and brought with it the Hairy-footed Flower Bees. When I got tired of chasing them I went for a little wander up and down the lane, and on a whim veered onto the driveway … Continued
Shakespeare country
R and I went to the cinema today – we think quite possibly for the first time since the pandemic – to see Hamnet. It was outstanding – lyrical, beautiful, and heartbreaking – and I wept through quite a bit … Continued
Lesser lesson
I don’t have much to say about today: it was cold and dark, and R and I – who had to spend the morning and the first half of the afternoon dealing with the kind of tedious, irritating domestic nonsense … Continued
Chocolate-headed Laughing Gull
I was going to caption the image “scabby”, but decided that this would be unfair: it’s not the gull’s fault that I caught it mid-moult into its breeding plumage, and if we’re talking complexions, mine is nothing to write home … Continued
Irresistible
Well, I can’t resist them anyway. On the way back from Slimbridge yesterday I called in at the garden centre in Ashchurch to see if they had anything I couldn’t buy closer to home, and came back with some quite … Continued
Smile for the camera
The Spoonbill is seen more and more regularly in the UK these days, and the RSPB states that its population here is “strongly increasing”. To put that in better context though, they think that around seventy pairs nest here, mainly … Continued
The joy of spring
I finally got to try out the new power edger today, and it was a lot easier to use than I’d expected – though, to be honest, I think the ground was still a bit too damp, because I had … Continued