In April 2018, we drove to Cairngorm National Park and spent a ten-day break watching birds, animals and admiring fabulous views. Here is the detailed account of that wonderful trip to Scotland. We drove 2018 miles. We set off from Cornwall at a not unreasonable time....

Late on a fine Monday afternoon, I was still in the office, when I received a phone call to ask if I would take on a Peahen. The call was from a client who lives further west in Cornwall about 40 minutes from us. Cherry suggested I went straight away as she had an...

When I was very young, well before my teens, my family used to holiday in a static caravan sited at a tiny fishing village called Beesands in the South Hams of Devonshire. At the time my family; mother, father, sister, and I were living in Sussex and we used to leave very soon after midnight to arrive in Devon early. Beesands, which used to live entirely from the sales of crab, was a tiny bay with a huge lighthouse at the western end.

In August 2006 friends of ours who live in the New Forest brought us a young male blind fox.
They had looked after it for some months but had no permanent long-term home for the cub.