Amazingness

I spotted this hoarding on the way to Cambridge train station and was instantly attracted to it. I loved the colours and the lines, and, of course, the diagonally growing ivy. I wondered if the ivy would get all the way to the top of its diagonal without getting distracted, thus creating a perfect line. […]

Rays of web radiating out in what looks like a mini galactic explosion, these are in fact trip-wires laid down by a big black spider with bright green jaws (a tube web spider). If you happen to stumble across this set-up in the darkness of the night, you are quite likely to get gobbled up […]

As it turns out, not all naughty little plants are actually that naughty…this grass here doesn’t seem to want to make any trouble. It’s trying to fit right in, lining up nice and neatly with all the other stripes.

Minutes after an intense and lengthy bout of rain, during one of those magical moments when warm sunshine breaks through the menacing dark-grey rain clouds, and the whole world responds by shining super brightly in its wetness, I was drawn to this little plant and his reflection. Thanks to both the sun and the rain, […]

With caffeine-alert eyes masking a somewhat shaky interior, this young lady may struggle slightly along the way, but is definitely going to enjoy Monday.

Today was a truly magnificent cloud day. I looked out of the window this morning at about 9:30 am and was pretty excited because I thought I had been transported to the Alps during ski season. On closer inspection I realised, of course, that the mountains were actually clouds. But far from being disappointed, I […]

I have been moving house over the last week. As a memory to the gorgeous sunny bedroom that I lived in for almost five years, here is a photograph of the piece of yellow cloth that I used as a curtain, taken just before I removed it and put it in a cardboard box. The […]