They are lovely to watch when they are wheeling about in the sky but a lot less so when they are raiding bins and scattering rubbish around the town and congregating on rooftops and shrieking at the tops of their voices early in the morning. And don’t get me started on them using my car for target practice and covering it with poo….
Well, here we are. Send for a bugle, it’s the Last Post. Couldn’t decide which image to use, so some friends (you know who you are!) suggested this and very […]
It has been a difficult week. On 28th December 2010, one of my younger son’s friends passed away unexpectedly aged 24. As you can imagine my son and his friends […]
This is a photograph of my automata. I have been collecting them for years from places such as the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre and Dansel Gallery in Dorset. They are made […]
A sure remedy for the post-festivity, rubbish weather, January blues. The dose to be adjusted to personal taste and accompanied by a really good movie and a warm dog. Worked […]
When I first started to bind books, I bought leather pieces from Falkiners (now Shepherds) – my favourite place for bookbinding supplies. More recently, I discovered that Pittards in Yeovil, […]
I wish that this blog had sound effects, you would be able to hear Milo snoring loudly. His legs keep twitching – he must be dreaming. Let sleeping dogs lie…
Those look like herring gulls. I like gulls; they’re cheeky and fun to watch.
They are lovely to watch when they are wheeling about in the sky but a lot less so when they are raiding bins and scattering rubbish around the town and congregating on rooftops and shrieking at the tops of their voices early in the morning. And don’t get me started on them using my car for target practice and covering it with poo….
True…LOL! Did you ever see the Gary Larsen’s Far Side cartoon in which, from a bird’s eye view, every car has a big bull’s eye on it?