Pandemic pleasures: being at home enough to keep your Hotbin composter at a steady temperature of nearly 60C. 🌱


A rather busy key worker at Nymans yesterday.

A bee hard at work on a pink flower.

Lots of people using the slipway behind our house today.

Boaters and SUPers waiting to launch from a slipway.

This sunflower has self-seeded from below our bird feeder. What a lovely surprise.

A sunflower in the back garden.

Sign on the equipment in the local playpark. One day, it’ll be an historical oddity blithely ignored by children for whom it’s an irrelevance.

Roll on that day.

Covid-19 warning sign on childrens' play equipment.

Beach detail.

Driftwood on Shoreham Beach.

The Isles of Scilly, a decade ago.

A bay on one of the Isles of Scilly.

An additional mask, now they’re compulsory in shops.

Adam Tinworth wearing a mask.

We get some surprisingly big ships on this stretch of the river.


Buoyant bird.

A seagull on s bouy in the river Adur