I did not see the seal that swam past the house the other day because Theo had managed to find a place where he could scramble over the wall AGAIN.  I have bought yet more wire fencing but have not yet had a chance to erect it.  It's been a busy week what with one thing and another ( Read more... )

We went for a short drive today to Tenby, and we SAW A WALRUS ( Read more... )

Arrrggh, Theo keeps getting out of the garden to visit the pair of little terrier ladies who are staying with their owner's Mum at the top of it. And he won't do it when I'm looking at him!

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They were wrestling so enthusiastically that they barely noticed us.  I can report that voles wrestle rather like humans, standing on their back legs and using their weight to try to throw the adversary and hold him down.  The celandines are in full swing, creating shining golden carpets beside the paths. I must remember to bring the camera ( Read more... )

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I forgot to mention that while on holiday, I met this magnificent hornet. It retreated to begin with, but then came out to be photographed in a sunbeam.

Then I opened the door and it flew away making a rich deep buzzing noise, like a small propeller driven aeroplane. 
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I never knew that before!  But a few days ago I found a pussy willow tree basking in the morning sunlight, and it was all over bees, hoverflies, wasps, and even a rather raggedy peacock butterfly left over from last year was feeding enthusiastically (I wonder where it went when it snowed?)   I had always assumed that plants with catkins were wind- ( Read more... )

One quick photo of Rosie in our brief snow, which lasted all of a day, but snow in Cornwall is a rarity. 

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You would have thought it would be cold, but in fact it was a clear calm day today, and the sun was warm and the tide just at half past one, so we sloped off down to the River Lynher and went out from Wacker Quay.


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On yesterday's walk, I saw a green woodpecker!  Most unusual that: I see woodpeckers reasonably often, but usually it's the great spotted woodpecker.  It makes a nice change to see a green one.   And also I saw a hare, which always makes my day.  Hares are not very rare, but you don't often see them here because there's so much cover and they are ( Read more... )