I found a lovely oil painting of a crow or raven (still thinking about them, since our close encounters) by, i think, RA Rose, not that i’m going to buy it but i can enjoy looking at it online. Follow the eBay link (while it remains valid) and you’ll find some better pix of it, including [...]
But for Tigger, we’d never have met Jack. Do bear with the image quality. Neither birds nor boys (nor double glazing) are known as good sitters for the camera. Tigger definitely isn’t, though Friend-Next-Door is a little more mature. Jack is a cheeky chappie, or chapette. (We don’t know whether ‘Jack’ is short for Jacqueline.) I […]
I’ll explain Lithops soon, probably next month.* If you’re impatient there’s always Wikipedia. Briefly, Lithops are succulent plants (the family with cacti, but look like pebbles, neither attractive nor interesting – but when you know a little about them they’re captivating and fascinating, either that or i’ve gone loopy at last […]
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