This is going to really rile my friend Andrew, who’s been trying to persuade me to include hyphenated words and his own pet hate ‘no problem’ for years. I’ve had to point [...]
It’s always an exciting moment when a frog takes up residence in your pond, especially when it’s the first and only frog that’s appeared there in over eight years. It raises [...]
Imagine you knew without any doubt that the world was going to end… but not just yet. Not imminently. Well, imminently in relation to the lifetime of the planet but not imminently in a [...]
This week I was sent a picture of my friend Alan, out in Qatar, holding a Wales flag and sitting atop a camel. This extraordinary creature has a unique ability to travel great distances, keep [...]
To paraphrase George Jones, master of the heart-rending Country ballad, it’s been a good year for the apples. There’s nothing heart-rending in that really, unless you regard it as a [...]