Micro adventures at one of our local nature reserves: an afternoon at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.

Birds and trees and bluebells.

A dunnock at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.

A sobering find in my Mum’s negatives. This is the original Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, taken in 1989. The bridge was destroyed in the Croat-Bosniak war four years later. The bridge there now is a recreation.

The original Old Bridge in Mostar, taken in 1989.

The Burnside, Dollar, Scotland, early 1989.

The Burnside, Dollar in 1989, looking North to the OchilsThe Burnside, Dollar, looking south in 1989.

I used to live in fear of doing this. It still makes mes me wince when I see it in a magazine.

An unwritten caption in Outdoor Swimmer Magazine.

Early morning mist over the Adur.

Mist sitting in the Adur valley, seen from Lancing College.

The ruins of Hillfoot House, near Dollar in Scotland. Photographed in 1983.

Even these ruins are gone now, apparently, replaced by a modern new house. My friends and I used to play in and around the ruin as pre-teens.

The ruin of Hillfoot House, in Dollar, Clackmanannshire, circa early 1983.

Mum, March 1983.

Ann Tinworth, out for dinner on 11th March 1983.

Yikes. I need to do better than that.

A graph from Apple Health showing my average sleep at 5 hours 50 minutes.

Well, who doesn’t?

Graffiti in a railway siding reading “I ❤️ eggs”.

Ah, who can fail to love one of these?

An a-frame backboard with “secondhand bookshop” written in chalk.