Views from the shed

With only days to go before I touch down in Chicago I feel I must warn you in advance of what to expect.
I've tried this time, I really have tried my best to look half way presentable....I feel I have to tell you because it won't be immediately apparent. I've mown my ear and nostril hair back to a respectable length, sanded down my complexion, buffed up...

This week you find me at the Chess Megafinals being held at Worcester University. Sam and two of his friends from school have qualified for this event and now face six matches over the day hoping to gain enough points to make it to the Gigafinals! Looking...

Life isn't just bird watching, golf and rocking gently in a dark corner....sometimes I need to work. This last week I was thinking of ideas for the annual Black box and was making a list of exotic, or do I mean stomach turning, foods that in certain...

Today you would have found me crawling on my hands and knees through the shrubbery, no, not making my way home from the pub or stealing items of ladies underwear from the neighbours washing line!..but twitchering....bird watching. Britain is known for...