Boxy
The beetles and bugs have been surprisingly slow to come out this year, despite a fortnight of temperatures that have been closer to June’s than to a normal English April. Today that weather began to break, and my scorched aucuba … Continued
Absolute unit
I was practising some Haydn in advance of a choir rehearsal – an assertion that might surprise anyone who had the bad luck to be sitting in my vicinity later in the evening – when R arrived at my desk, … Continued
Camouflage
This dock bug and I have been playing a little game of hide and seek with each other around the fruit bed in the secret garden for most of this week. This morning I caught it pretending to be part … Continued
Major annoyance
Right then, Mr B. major. Now we’ve finally introduced ourselves, can we come to an agreement? I realise that you don’t like me following you around, and that’s fair enough. But I need you to understand that this is my … Continued
