ILLUSTRATIONS

People ask who did the illustrations for my book, CHICKEN COOPS.. so I had better own up – ’twas me. Art A-level too many decades ago is the only qualification I can summon to mind, though I have managed to keep my hand in meanwhile with a sketch-book in...

Allotment Joys

ALLOTMENT JOYS In the summer I got into nasturtiums. Rather, my allotment did. It feels frustratingly hard to recall already, but the summer of 2012 was seriously wet; in fact, the whole year seems to have been wet – the high-point being the floods around...