The Birds In The Meadow

Red Kite Soaring

Last weekend as I sat quietly reading a book in the garden at R’s family home, I glanced up to see a large raptor circling lazily in the hot summer sky. Buzzards are common in that part of Hampshire, but this most certainly was not a buzzard. The forked tail gave this spectacular bird away. [...]

Adventures and earning my keep

I spend a lot of time travelling in the summer. You’ll have seen in my previous post that I recently spent a week in Copenhagen – it was that wonderful luxury that is a real holiday. It’s usually been the case throughout my life that when travelling I am also doing some kind of work, [...]

Stormy North Sea Sky

So where have I been this last fortnight? Away in Copenhagen visiting our friend Sonja at the Distortion Festival, and it’s taken me about the same amount of time to recover. R and I decided a while ago that if we were going to do any short haul European travel we wouldn’t fly. It’s not [...]

Shop Holiday 29th May – 8th June

Just letting you know that I’ll be away from Saturday 29th May until Tuesday 8th June. The shop will be open for you to browse or buy, but I will not be able to process any orders until I return. Thank you for your patience! Bird xxx Related posts:New Vintage and SteampunkAt last I got [...]

Swallows and Swifts make the summer

I look forward to seeing my first swallow of the year. Usually in the London area they arrive around the 15th April – an astonishing feat of punctuality when you consider the vast distance they travel. Some however get it wrong; I once saw a single bird hawking over Connaught Water in Epping Forest in [...]