Love
I had a hundred things to do today, but knowing that the nice morning was forecast to give way to a wet afternoon, I abandoned them all and zoomed over to Kemerton Lake to spend an hour in the hide. … Continued
Mad as a coot
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I present to you a couple of male coots, ripping strips off one another because the one on the right had spoken inappropriately to the girlfriend of the one on the left. If the … Continued
Gently smiling jaws
Day 4729 of this beastly cold, and I’m thoroughly fed up now. I even did another covid test today, just in case the last one was wrong, but got the same negative result. This at least made me feel able … Continued
Onomatopoeic
I’m suffering from a horrible cold at the moment, and I was in two minds today whether to get up and go out, or just pull the duvet back over my head and suffer horizontally. But bright sunny days in … Continued
Two out of three
I spent the morning waiting for a call-back from someone who’d left me an insistent message yesterday saying that I HAD to phone them today, only to be unavailable when I did. I find this kind of situation enraging, and … Continued
Breeding residents
Mad dogs, and Englishwomen with an Odonata obsession, and the tolerant husbands of said Englishwomen who suspect that they need someone to lug their photographic gear, go out in the midday sun. R and I managed to catch up on … Continued
