Fifty Shades of Grey

…at Vobster Quay. So foggy was it that the nice people who work there said could we just swim widthways … More

Birthday Cats

Guess how old Tony is? It’s not old at all if you write it in cats…

I chucked some branches of cotoneaster horizontalis* in with the chickens. The branches were covered in berries and I thought … More

I was up in Cumbria for the weekend, swimming, but that’s another story. Fleetingly, driving out of Great Langdale, I … More

Percy on Vincent van Gogh’s chair. Van Gogh was also ginger, now I come to think of it, though it … More

Percy is having to train up a new cushion to his liking. Arthur deliberately sat on his favourite red cushion … More

I attempted to draw this morning’s swim from memory. Tricky… I am not used to ‘realistic’ landscape stuff and I … More

This is our fruit bowl, but there is only one fruit in it. It is orange, and rather hairy.

I have a New Theory of Brambles and the pruning thereof. I have had a New Theory approximately once a … More

Cat-of-the-Day: Je suis Charlie. On the whole, Arthur and Percy have no views on current events, but we wanted to … More