Let’s be honest – even the most social media skeptical amongst us is vulnerable, should we find ourselves waiting in a particularly long queue, stuck in non-moving traffic, waiting for a coffee or a meal, etc. – to pulling out one of the ubiquitous little electronic time thieves that we carry about on our person […]
Beginning in 2024, after some years of putting it on the metaphorical back burner, I made the decision to devote more time and effort to birdwatching. I was once an avid birder, meticulously listing every twitch of a feather that can into view, then, having become disillusioned by some of the things I experienced in […]
To borrow and slightly adapt a verse from The Little River Band‘s “Cool Change,” Well I was born in the sight of water And it’s there that I feel my best The albatross and the whales they are my brothers For me, this is not just a bit of poetic nicety. Having been born and […]