Brutal

Talk about Nature, red in tooth and claw. Your entire life has been leading up to this. You spend two years as a nymph, living in a burrow on the river bed, using your gills to create a water current to … Continued

A flutter of Admirals

R and I went to Stratford this morning to run errands and eat cake, and I offset the cake a little by taking a rapid walk down to Weir Brake lock in search of dragons. I didn’t find any, probably … Continued

Pristine

If someone filmed me walking round my garden, looking for invertebrates, and then speeded up the film, I think you could probably set it to the Benny Hill Show theme music: there’s so much stopping and starting, double-taking and reversing, … Continued