It's not raining, and I'm not at school so there was no excuse this morning not to resume my regular walking circuit. The high point...

There was a kingfisher sitting on the powerline facing into our garden this morning. I cleaned out the pond yesterday so the water's not...

The travel memories in this blog are stirred by all sorts of things in my everyday life: a news item, the weather, work, a chance remark. To...

Firstborn on the front page again, called in to work at the Herald because "there's too much news" - and so there is, with pe...

Good grief, it's raining again. We've had such a long and very wet winter, and though there are lots of flowers out, the birds are ...

My forefinger's tingling again. It does that now, from time to time, ever since I stupidly poked it into a parrot's cage at Cooberri...

Two tourists from Taiwan were shot and wounded on Sunday by random gunmen on a motorbike at the Jama Masjid mosque in New Delhi: possibly te...