Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

I have a funny relationship with spiders. I do have a bit of a phobia about them, particularly the big hairy-legged ones called George who strut across the room like they own the place, but I am getting better.
I can now get quite close to them, and frequently do when I decide to take […]

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With all the to-ing and fro-ing to visit poorly relatives recently it made a change to go down to visit all the healthy ones tonight. My mother and sister both belong to a painting club and tonight they were having an exhibition in Southend to which we were invited.
The place was even more packed […]

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I have not been getting out and about with my camera much lately - but I hardly need to: its like a safari in the back garden.
Having exhausted the possibilities of snail photography, and slugs and spiders, and snapping the flying ant invasion its now the turn of the unidentified red bugs who were getting […]

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There was a small plague of flying ants in Crawley this afternoon. Our front garden was covered with them.

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One of my little pleasures in life, and a favourite part of my daily routine, is seeing the rabbits on the roundabout near my workplace every morning. The roundabout is on a busy road with buildings all around it and I reckon therefore that its very likely the rabbits live on that roundabout and […]

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The recent wet weather has brought a huge number of slugs and snails into the garden and I have been unable to resist trying to photograph them at night.
This is my favourite snap so far where, without regard for personal safety, I put myself directly into the path of a charging snail to get a […]

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Alert readers will recognise this log. The last time a photo of it appeared here there was a terrapin on it.
This morning I walked down to K2 for the election count, taking the Greenway through Broadfield Park to get there.
As I reached the lake I saw a pair of canada geese with half a […]

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How does the cat know?
Since it is past midnight, this is now officially my birthday, so the cat has just come in and presented me with a dead mouse. I have had to throw him out and lock the cat-flap so he does not bring it back in again after I have gone to […]

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One of the buggers stayed still long enough for a few snaps earlier this evening.

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It was the last episode of Equator on TV tonight. The whole thing seemed to be over far too quickly.
The programme had a typical Michael Palin-type concept: follow the equator all the way round the planet and make a film of it, but instead of Michael Palin we had Simon Reeve. Who is he? […]

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