When I showed the new additions to the collectables' library, I mentioned a few other books I'd bought recently, half in the Alton s...

No, not TJF and his sidekick; proper, serious, climate-change related, existential pests! One of the weirdest things at the PW show ...

Although - If you sat on one it couldn't be 'miscellaneous' in any sense of the word! This PVC scorpion came-in in a mixed...

I know we've had that title before, but i'm not feeling inventive today and I haven't posted wildlife for ages, these were shot ...

I spent the afternoon rewarding myself for all that mud-puddling! And the bee-stings; 5 and counting this year, only 7 in the whole of last ...

Well, although it's getting colder by the minute this afternoon, and we've had two-and-a-half days of intermittent rain mist and dri...

One or two of you may have noticed I have now imported all the old posts from the gardening and moaning blogs, so from time to time you'...

Clearly I need a camera with a narrower focusing 'beam' and a faster shutter-speed! This is a Humming-bird Hawk Moth, going 99-to-th...

Mike Beale over at the Norfolk Wildlife blog, link to right, writes in answer to my query about the white moth bottom right "That's...

More wildlife encountered out and about in West Berkshire in the last couple of weeks; Top left is a busy Bumble Bee, to the right is a cate...