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We are having a mini-heatwave (for a British value of the word 'heatwave'). Two days with the temperatures in the mid to high 20s C, before the rain returns in time for the weekend. Had planned to head down to the coast this morning, but the sky was cloudless, near white - the worst possible sky for landscape photography. So there was a change of ( Read more... )

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4.00am. A hedgehog in the garden, Max's frantic yipping informed me. Dragged Max away from the unassailable and irresistible, and left the hedgehog to carry on with his/her rootling around. I've been worried for the hedgehogs in this drought, but this one looked big and healthy, so some good soul must be feeding them. (I can't put out food for them ( Read more... )

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