Weird word weird. It breaks the ‘i before e except after c’ rule for a start. And here’s a peculiar thing. Since the end of the Seventies, the word ‘weird’ has seen [...]
The thing about working on roofs is that you get to know your birds. We’ve had a cocky little critter strutting about the garden for several weeks – in fact, there it is now – and when Mick [...]
Don’t you find it remarkable that after 12,000 years of agriculture, the same questions keep cropping up (pardon the pun)? Is a strawberry a fruit? Is a pea a vegetable? Is a potato a root [...]
One of the consequences of it having rained non-stop for the last two years is that there’s been a bumper crop of fruit this year. I’ve had so many apples I’ve run out of [...]
The recent couple of weeks of sunshine – what we in England call ‘summer’ – has left the water level down a bit in my garden pond. Apparently a pond evaporates by about one inch per [...]
