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Many years ago, when my stepson David was barely a teenager, he was coming back into the house from the garden when he glanced up at the roo...

Certain pairings just seem to work, don’t they? Fish and chips, for instance. Or spinach and egg. And, of course, gin and tonic. The same ...

They left me behind again the other day. Went out for the whole evening. And the worst of it was that, when they got back, number 2 smelled ...

Luci's Diary. In which she seems to be settling in and learning her way round the new place. And its occupants. March ...

Another entry from Misty’s diary. In which he has to come to terms with an existential shock . March 2015 He th...

It's been exciting to be spectators to a life and death struggle going on just across the street from us, between land and air power, fo...

When a tomcat arrives in a new territory, he walks round and sprays the boundary. The result probably smells familiar and comfortable to him...

It’s time to look again at some of the underlying principles of Darwinian thought, particularly the concept of survival of the fittest. My c...