Flights of the butterfly

  • DUCKS AND STUFF

    A dull, but mild morning. Spring is in the air. And sex. Especially among the duck people. Mallards are living on the flooded watermeadow and it’s just sex and mayhem. Worse than a Weatherspoon Friday night. Bunches of males are trying to get to the females and being noisily warned off by the mate of…

  • I DON’T LIKE JAZZ

    I like music. In fact, it is essential to my wellbeing. I have a collection of about five thousand tracks, all genres. They are on a laptop and they play whenever I am in the flat, day or night, awake or asleep. Obvs, the volume is kept down for the neighbours’ sake – just to…

  • MERCENARY RIVER

    Just finished  a book, “The Mercenary River” by Nick Higham. It’s a hard read, but worth the effort. Hard, because It has to be. It covers four hundred years of history and does it in detail. Necessary detail to understand what happened and its implications. I am not going to precis, summarise or extract from…

  • NOTE TO MY LOCAL COUNCIL

    Some time ago, two clothing recycling containers appeared at the end of my street. Big ugly green things that nobody uses. To the leader of my local council, on your seven-figure salary: Do you have these at the end of your road? Nah, didn’t think so. D’you want them? Nah, didn’t think so. Me neither,…

  • I DON’T LIKE JANE AUSTEN

    I don’t like Jane Austen. Today, in the town centre, outside the old town hall building, they have set up lighting rigs. This is to illuminate the interior of the building through the windows so that interior shots can be lit as if by strong daylight. Probably to make some period drama, most likely yet…

  • SHREW

    This is a little shrew I saw on the track this morning. It was sad. He seemed to be intact, no sign of an attack so I hope he had a peaceful passing in the night. Now, this is important, do not confuse a shrew with a mouse. Some years ago, I lived in the…

  • THE RULES OF LIFE

  • CONCORDE

    Concorde was an engineering failure. As an aircraft, she may have been beautiful, packed to the wingtips with advanced technology, a masterpiece of airborne sculpture, a flying artwork. An engineer is someone who can do for five bob what any fool can do for a pound. Engineering has to have a  commercial benefit, either direct…

  • LITERALLY ANYBODY ELSE

    I am so happy to see that somebody in the United Sates is hoping to run in the presidential elections under the above name. I wish him luck and hope he wins. It would be a wonderful comment on the state of politics, throughout the world, not just in one country. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t make…

  • Cold morning

    Watched the geese and ducks mooching about on the flooded watermeadow. Cold, this morning, a full moon just setting through the bare trees.Their bums and feet must be frozen. A duck started swimming across, quacking all the way. Think he’d spotted a squaw and was giving it a bit of “Fancy a quickie, darlin’ ”.Looks…