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 … More

No, but seriously?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Also my favourite time to begin a wee cruise. To the wheelie bins. Nine and a tad miles round-trip, twice … More