Eckythump

Heron on Rutters Bridge. It’s alright though; I talked him down. It’s been Hellishly hot and also coolishly cool in…

Waiter? There are people in my soup.

It’s been a funny old week. Yesterday, Friday, was technically the hottest day of the year thus far being in…

Honestly, is it just me or… Two thousand miles of canal, several hundred yards free on this stretch alone… and…

Don’t get your hopes up, they’re not open yet. Rest assured though that I shall be first in the queue…

The Canal Company Ltd’s “Let’s not mow to the edges because wildlife, yeah?” policy in full June bloom. By August…

Photograph from a few days ago – the Cardinal making (more) close friends. It now being “Peasants Celebrating Serfdom” Bank…

Silly o’clock in the morning, down to the watering hole to watch the lions and tigers and ephalumps and zedbras…

See what I did there? Squeezed in a cheeky phomatograph of the Cardinal (albeit locationally misleading, since we’re a hundred…

Old Father Nature does get whimsical at times, as yesterday when he bunged up a full semi-circle double rainbow with…

Pleasant enough, but wearily anodyne. The world at large, that is. There have been highlights, of course, and low-lights, but…

In their daily lives moorhens make a sound like a doggy chew-toy squeaking, sort of high-pitched hiccups. Spring having sprung,…

That’s what it took to extricate this highly embarrassed “historical” wooden boat from Cholmondeston Lock. With age a certain spread…