Conditions were a little tricky at the owl field this afternoon: there were five owls in the air (good), but they kept getting into conflict with each other and flying high, rather than hunting low across the field (bad), and … Continued
“Did you miss all this?” said HB at the end of the afternoon – meaning the three owl-free winters we’ve been through, rather than the biting cold on the top of the scarp, and the long hours spent standing around … Continued
I wasn’t going to go – I really wasn’t – but the light was good, and the forecast was reasonable… and in the end the siren call of the Cotswold owls was too strong, and I went. The lane was … Continued
I attained State Pension age today – which is at least better than never attaining it – and despite an ongoing sense of bewilderment at finding myself as old as this, when in my head I’m still only forty-something, I … Continued
I had so many things to do at home today that I didn’t know which to tackle first – a problem I solved by not tackling any of them, and going to the owl field instead. The owls largely kept … Continued
Inevitably I was tired and somewhat anticlimactic today, after the huge energy we put into performing Elijah yesterday evening. My mood wasn’t lifted by the weather, which was dreary, nor by the three hours that R and I spent at … Continued
It’s gone time that I started taking my own advice. The weather today was almost Mediterranean compared with yesterday, the wind having swung round into the west and decreased significantly, so as long as you were standing in sun you … Continued
Back at home after spending the day in Wales with the Boy Wonder, and with R having gone back out again to a gig in Birmingham (Bonnie Raitt, if that set you wondering), I took the macro and wandered round … Continued
