The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Category Archives: Animals
That Sealed It
Apparently Britain’s coastline, apart from being very long, mostly cold and visually splendid is home to forty percent of the world’s grey seal population. And a stretch from the Suffolk-Norfolk border going north is one such spot. Now if you … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, miscellany, suffolk, wildlife
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Amongst Friands
Word has reached us from deepest darkest Norfolk to say that Vicky, the tortoise who we cared for for twenty plus years after the previous custodians upsticked and moved to California is now in her holding pattern pre hibernation. She … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, miscellany, pets
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Bird Day
This weekend, as we’ve done for a few years, we joined in the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) great bird watch. For this you select one hour at the chosen weekend and record how many types (and … Continue reading
Dancing Like A Tortoise
Vicky is 80 plus, but girl has she still got it.
Love…
I’m in Northern Ireland. I miss Dog. Does he miss me…?
Punch #dog #memory
Funny old world. I was with the Vet and the Pest Controller who were looking at a house they might buy and we passed a dog. A boxer. I’d fallen behind them – for some reason I’d felt the urge … Continue reading
Equine Ambivalence
The other day I wrote a post that included a picture of a horse. Someone saw it and expressed a certain concern, wondering if it was happy. It does have notes of eeyore about him. But I was ambivalent, I … Continue reading
A Time in Africa – Part two #travel #memoir #africa
In part one we were in Tanzania and we had had a wonderful time; our guide, Moses took us to the Kenya border to meet our Kenyan guide. Once again I’m not sure I remember his name correctly but it … Continue reading
Posted in africa, Animals, holidays, miscellany, Photograph, wildlife
Tagged africa, Kenya, masa, serengeti, wildlife
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A Time In Africa – part one #memoirs #africa #Safari
In 1988, I had turned 30, been married 4 years and been a partner in my law firm 12 months. The Textiliste and I had undertaken a rather crazy project of refurbishing a house in Herne Hill, South London which, … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, memories, miscellany, Photograph, travel
Tagged holiday, humour, Kenya, Tanzania, travel
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Top 10 Lessons from 2016 #Caninephilosophy
1. If you leave it out it will get eaten. 2. Brexit means little if there’s no chicken left. 3. If humans adopted a dog’s approach to greeting another, by checking out each other’s arses, they’d know, early on, which … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, family, humour, miscellany
Tagged 2016, dog's life, humour, philosophy
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