Magpies are one of our favourite birds: they’re cheeky, easy to recognize — and big enough so you don’t need binoculars to see ‘em. This one turned up just before dusk, around 4pm this afternoon. Presumably, it would usually prefer to spend the night in a tree, but we think it could have needed to [...]

A little while — or, more precisely, about two years — ago, we visited Motherby Hill, a part of Lincoln we had not previously seen. Passing through the Spring Hill area of town, we noticed a strangely named road: Stanthaket Court, and decided to research the name when we got home. This week we finally [...]

We’ve gone radical and uber-edgy with our decorating and have started painting everywhere white. It might not sound very adventurous, but the hall and stairway areas are already looking bigger and brighter. Having lived with a sort of coffee-brown colour on the walls for two years, we’ve finally realised how dingy the place was looking. [...]

For weeks (actually, make that months) we have heard hardly a hoot, despite always having the bedroom windows open even in the chilliest of weather; yep, we sure are a pair of hardy souls, aren’t we? But this past week the local tawny owls have been determined to wake Shana up in the middle of [...]