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I really should have known better. After 31 years, I should have known that describing him as not being foolhardy would be taken as a challenge. This is, after all, the person on the company team-building exercise who volunteered to … Continued

This morning R and I decided to clean the windows. It took us most of the day… In fact there’s still one left to be done tomorrow, which is the one closest to my desk. Because of its position above … Continued

I’m soooooo far behind with everything, I just don’t know how I’m ever going to catch up with myself: desk covered with paper, requiring more or less urgent processing; garden going to hell; house an utter tip; multiple folders of … Continued

It must be toadally zorsting, trying to keep track of seven offspring when they’re all highly mobile and inquisitive, and lack any trace of common sense. I’ve chosen this image of Mummy Mallard with just two of the brood because … Continued

I was tired today, and out of sorts for most of it – not least because the weather had turned cold and overcast, which made gardening unappealing and bug hunting largely fruitless. But I did need to test the 7D … Continued

It has a ring to it, don’t you think? Someone should put it in a song lyric. Forgive the waspishness, if you would (fields of waspish yellow?). Today was a long day, much of it spent travelling, and alternately boring … Continued

I have not, I swear to you, Photoshopped this bee into this image – it is genuinely a female Anthophora plumipes, coming in to land on the lovely blossom of our cherry tree. It’s not technically my best shot of … Continued

Today dawned with a bit of a shock, after the the unseasonably gorgeous weather we had over the weekend: it was largely cloudy, and the temperature had dropped by about 10º. I thought that if I went for an early … Continued

I don’t have much to report today, owing to the fact that I’ve spent most of it buried in Lightroom, processing image files from Amsterdam. If you missed it, there’s one I’m quite pleased with of the Rijksmuseum Library here. … Continued

Hark at me, anthropomorphising again. It’s not wicked of course, though its habits are reprehensible. This is Melecta albifrons, the Common Mourning-bee, which is a cleptoparasite of our lovely friend Anthophora plumipes, the Hairy-footed Flower Bee. Instead of setting to … Continued