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It’s a well-known fact that if you have ferrules that need guarding, there’s nothing better to employ than a Border Terrier. You can see how keenly I was being watched here, as a potential ferrule purloiner. I thought that getting … Continued

I had vowed to clear my desk of stray paperwork today, but must confess that I didn’t get very far. I’ve been feeling tired and under the weather all day, with the inevitable result that I’ve spent far more time … Continued

R and I went to Bath today, to see another small but perfectly formed exhibition at the lovely Holburne Museum. This one is called Bruegel: Defining a Dynasty, and it contains works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, his sons Pieter … Continued

It’s always a delight to watch mute swans courting, even though the female, still in her juvenile plumage, looked far too young for this kind of behaviour. However, this is the town that spawned Romeo and Juliet, and this performance … Continued

Again. Apologies for posting a second take on one of last Friday’s anemones, but I’ve been under pressure today. I somehow managed to let myself be inveigled into saying that I would present some images at BGCC this evening, even … Continued

I was delighted today to spot my second butterfly of the spring. The first is a Brimstone, which keeps taunting me by flying past me at about the speed of Concorde so I can’t get a photo; but this Comma … Continued

R and I were wandering back up the garden after removing the product of this morning’s Rough Gardening session to the burn pile, when we stopped at a patch of sweet violet so I could show him the Anthophora plumipes … Continued

OK, so we’re a few days into the bug season now, and I think you’re adequately trained up to be able to cope with this. I don’t actually know if Anthophora plumipes (the Hairy-footed Flower Bee) has the longest tongue … Continued

I had a few errands to run this morning, so I dropped the top of the roadster and zoomed off – regretting the top-down nonsense within about a mile, but gritting my teeth and persevering. “Pride must abide,” as my … Continued

I spent a lot of today working on my photos from the Chipping Campden craftspeople event on Tuesday; I’m almost cross-eyed, but I have now culled around 60% of what I started with, and processed about two thirds of the … Continued