In a one seat canoe, you’re skipper and crew, just messing about on the river. Josh Macrae My kayak lives in the garage. Deflated, rolled and strapped to a folding trolley of the kind used by porters to move sacks … Read More »
If therefore we hear about Hannibal having offered battle to Fabius in vain, that tells us nothing more as regards the latter than that a battle was not part of his plan, and in itself neither proves the physical nor … Read More »
… these for instance, yesterday, by the river between Attenborough and Trentlock. * Cor – more ants! Yes, I’m afraid it’s true. In the end all teachers – and I’ve spent goodly chunks of my life being one – succumb … Read More »
Overlooking a wide loop in the river, the chateau at Beynac-et-Cazenac was gifted in 1115 to the sisters of Fontevrault Abbey but seized at century’s end by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester and prominent crusader. Expanded in later centuries, … Read More »
Today in Attenborough.
Monday. Walking the Erewash Canal from Long Eaton to Trentlock, I snapped a moorhen and remembered I need to go back to Nottingham to see the moorchicks spied from my canoe nine days ago, on the Beeston Cut opposite the … Read More »
Snapped on my S7 edge phone while strolling with Sue Beardon, Saturday evening, May 4. Mostly I avoid placing an image’s focal point dead centre. For once though I avoided the ‘rule of thirds’ principle – good servant, tyrannical master … Read More »
Early this morning. At 07:30, mist beginning to clear, I’m alone in a hide, watching greylag geese. But it’s a trio of canada geese that lay on the drama. Things begin peaceably enough. Until, with a great crested grebe … Read More »
At the entrance to the Isle of Harris Distillery, the first thing you see as the Skye boat kisses the hydraulic buffers at Tarbert Harbour, an aroma almost malt and almost whisky but not exactly either is breathed in. Those … Read More »