Southern Migrant Hawker

It was great to meet up with Hillyblips today, at Coombe Hill Nature Reserve in Gloucestershire, where she’s recently been photographing a Southern Migrant Hawker. This is a dragon that used to be vanishingly rare in this country, rarely making … Continued

C for Comma

R drove me into Stratford this morning, where I’d been summoned for more blood tests at the hospital, and then had a dental appointment. I emerged from the hospital outpatients unit almost before I’d walked in, which is the benefit … Continued

Hot

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.Jane Austen, letter to her sister Cassandra, 1796 “Horses sweat, gentleman perspire, and ladies gently glow.”My mother, c. 1965, quoting her grandmother who was born in … Continued