Travel problems have been hard to swallow
WELL, finally it seems the intense furore about the ash belching, flight halting Icelandic volcano has ended. Displaced and anxious folk have successfully navigated their way home, some literally £1,000s out of pocket, while others relished in their unexpected extra week of holiday.
A randomness of thoughts?
IT'S all about collective nouns – I was looking up a couple of these last week for an essay, I guess we all use them without much thought, you know, a herd of cows, a gaggle of geese...
In which our blogger goes batty
THE LAST couple of weeks Jessie and I have been playing the ‘signs of spring’ game. I think she is up to 420 nests spotted (but hey, I suspect she may have counted the ones on the school
Who killed Cock-Robin?
Do you remember that nursery rhyme? Who killed Cock-Robin? “I,” said the sparrow, “with my bow and arrow, I killed Cock-Robin.”
Flying Goatsuckers..a Latin American legend or a Great British reality?
THERE'S a fabulous tale from Latin America, one I’ve heard told many times from Bolivia up to Mexico, but no matter how often it was repeated, it still managed to make the hairs stand up on the
Learning to love our diverse natural world
SOME of the many highlights of living in South America for ten years were the frequent trips my adopted daughter Jessie and I made to the Galapagos Islands. Since they were only a short flight away we
