Overrun

I don't know if you've ever slept in a tent before.  Tents seem to be a bit like Marmite for dividing people, you either take to camping like a duck to water (and mud) or think it's a slow, cold, dirty, torturous death.  I like camping.  But sleeping in a tent does a weird thing...

A Few Word Pictures on a Sunny Afternoon

We live in town but it's a fairly quiet neighbourhood, we have our own garden even though we live in a flat and the sunny, warm weather is back so out I head. It is quiet.  The main noise of the day is children playing in various other gardens, calling to each other and occasionally...

What Shall We Talk About?

I know!  Let's talk about the weather, universally popular, universally safe.  Or maybe that should read 'universally UNpopular' as we never seem happy about it do we?  Too cold, too wet, too dry, too hot.  Never satisified with what we've got, we're eternal pessismists so that even if we're forced to admit that the weather...