Small Worlds in the Garden

My parents always joked that when I was a kid I could usually be found with my butt in the air inspecting some insect or if we were by the sea it would be among the rock pools looking  at the world under the water. My favorite author during early teen years was a guy […]

The Mouse in the House

First though, animals and people It was as large as my thumb and had the most amazing purple wings and glossy black body. It had buzzed the full length of my body looking for any stray spiders and then moved off to hunt along the brick ledges around the gardens. An old woman almost bowled […]