mute swan

It’s hard to do the full threatening wing flare when you’re as scruffy as this, but he did his best, bless him. It amuses me to think that the baleful side-eye was added to emphasize his disapproval, though obviously when … Continued

When they said, “Fill the frame,” I’m not sure they meant, “Realise belatedly that the creaking, swooshing, splashing noise that’s approaching you at speed is a family of swans, running along the river in an attempt to reach escape velocity, … Continued

I went to Stratford Hospital this afternoon to receive my first dose of CV-19 vaccine. The clinic was amazingly efficient: within five minutes of walking through the door I’d been registered and was in a cubicle with a doctor. The … Continued

R and I dragged ourselves out of bed at 7.30 this morning (slightly the worse for wear, in my case), and went to Charlecote. We would, we assured each other, feel better for it afterwards. This however, turned out not … Continued