R and I went on our usual walk round the waterfalls this morning. We noticed that in one of the ponds to the side of the path that significant frog activity was occurring and there was a load of spawn. For some reason this pool is always the first to get the frogs which is […]

I’ve just read a piece of complete nonsense on the BBC about streaming services (specifically Netflix) and this causing competition with cinemas. We have a Netflix subscription which I use a lot and costs a very reasonable price – probably comparable to going to a cinema once in in a month (and this is for […]

Both cats sleeping in the lounge tonight but constantly being disturbed with the noise from the owls outside which wake them up. There are several in the garden hooting away – I think they are tawny owls rather than the barn owls we had last year. I think I saw one as I was out […]

We’ve had some new visitors over the last few days – at least two pairs of long tailed tits. I’ve heard them described as “Lollipop Birds” because, well basically that is what they look like with their tiny round bodies and long tails. I also saw one siskin yesterday. For reasons unknown, although they are […]

In April, my friend J and I will be walking the Camino pilgrimage from St Jean de Pied Port to Santiago de Compostelo. Actually we will be slightly cheating because although J is a gentleman of leisure, I have a business to run and can only spare three weeks for it which means that I […]

You have to laugh. The powers that be put this stupid sign up over six months ago. I’m not sure why the trees here are any more or less dangerous than anywhere else you could wander to in the woods – unless there are some ents in there that we don’t know about. Anyway, this […]

I had a difficult challenge the other day. R doesn’t and never has eaten seafood. My brother N has suddenly decided not to eat any kind of processed meat. To me all this stuff is scaremongering by the media, and as long as you don’t live entirely on bacon sandwiches you are probably at minimal […]

I think I have mentioned before that R has a theory shared by a number of people on the Internet that spring begins on 1st March. Not sure I entirely agree with this as last year March was the coldest month of the year with stacks of snow. It killed any chance of getting plums […]

We have loads of squirrels this year. I saw eight at one time on the feeder yesterday and we are seeing loads both in the woods and going through the village I’m not convinced of the ultimate viability of the red squirrel in this area as I have heard nasty rumours that greys have arrived […]

R was pointing out yesterday that Tora is rather fond of watching “movie for cats” style videos. This is true, but I have to say that with one exception when he went searching for a squirrel behind my Surface, that he has very Catholic tastes. He will sit and watch everything from Marco Polo to […]