I am not common. I’m scarcer than you know Rarer than the Black-Headed Gull Less seen than the Herring-Gull. They’re everywhere you go. If you keep saying I’m common I will stamp my feet, Not in temper but to feel like rain On the ground beneath. I love to eat invertebrates that live underground And…

And so, after the months of treatment are over, we go to Sorrento.  We go in search of sunshine, somewhere that dreams are made of.  Typically, after we’d booked, I looked at the weather forecast in Italy for this time of the year.  Now unsure of the weather, it being March and having been told…

‘Let’s do something different this year,’ Mark said a few months ago.  We had planned to go up to Scotland on the bike this year but I’m used to him changing his mind so I shrugged my shoulders and thought, why not, never being shy of trying out a new adventure.  So there we were,…