Sun Dried Sparrows

Now, you know me, I’m generally quite a happy soul with a habit of looking on the bright side, but I’ve realised that I don't actua...

Lady Penelope in her Creighton Ward mansion  I expect loads will be written about Gerry Anderson this week and deservedly so; theref...

(See what I did there?) Just to say...   Many thanks for being there and for coming here; I hope you have a really good one, whateve...

No time to post more at the moment but the lovely folks over at the excellent music blog, Tune Doctor , recently asked if I'd contribute...

It was Christmas 1977 - I was fourteen and there was only one thing I really wanted for my present that year (apart from being asked ou...

No, this is nothing to do with the echidnas in my last post!   Instead here’s what we affectionately call Mr Spiky, a sculpture (?) that ha...

I’ve been taking some virtual trips to Australia this week to research animals for a potential book job and in so doing I’ve fallen in love...

Oh!  Time is ticking by and it seems I've not had enough of it to write a new post for over a week.  I've decided that my brain, whi...