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Northern Lights (at last!)

After years of hopeful, ultimately disappointing nighttime trips out to the compost heap… FINALLY!

Our annual September trip to Anglesey.

In which I spot a jackdaw doing something pretty odd, and just can’t help myself.

I which I refuse to disappear down yet another so-called ‘research’ rabbit-hole!

A Suffolk pilgrimage.

My thirteenth annual video slideshow.

There are good reasons why your first draft should be bad.

Two close-encounters with murderous birds in as many days.

I don’t want Former Me telling me which bits of the book are most noteworthy.

What we saw on our annual holiday in Anglesey.

I don’t buy claims that paintings are more accurate than photographs, and novels more truthful than factual writing.

A short walk with Mark Cocker to admire the natural grandeur of a Yorkshire wood.