Evening in the garden.

A cloudbank over a tree in a Shoreham Beach back garden.

Early evening beach walk.

A surfer in the sea off Shoreham Beach.

After three months with almost no time for anything but work or homeschooling, it feels good to actually do a little work on a side project again: Ring a ring of ospreys from The Osprey Weekly

Hand sanitiser gels contain microplastics.

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A wee visitor to our garden at night…

Homeschooling break in the garden.

An Ann rose in our garden.

Here’s one way to look at Facebook in a culture war context: the conflict is already there, Facebook is just an arms dealer.

Ming-Na Wen is indisputably awesome.

Maltese boats.

Vivid memories from a holiday to Malta very nearly 20 years ago.

Colourful boats in a harbour in Malta.Colourful Maltese boats from autumn 2000.

The view from our back garden in Dollar, Scotland, 30 years ago.

Photo by my late mother.

Looking down at Dollar in 1990, from a house in the High Street.

Looking back at locked-down May in 1 second every day.

Down by the Adur.

The news we need, if not the news we deserve: Dogmatix to Get His Own Asterix Comic Book

Reusable containers safe during Covid-19 pandemic, say experts.

Time to get the Keep Cup out again.

One unexpected - but happy - side effect of lockdown: I’m now wearing jeans of a waist size I haven’t managed to squeeze into since my 20s.

It is just possible that 1989 Adam was trying a bit too hard.

This was a useful read for me - and I suspect might help others:

How to engage with life when you feel down

Malta in early autumn 2000. While the clothes certainly date it, the complete absence of phones is quite remarkable. Just a film camera and a chunky video camera.

Tourists in Malta in autumn 2000.

More lockdown creativity: This is the most unusual version of Tubular Bells I’ve come across - but it all comes together in the end!

My daughter just uttered the phrase: “No. You are NOT selling my precious Shakespeare books!”

BRB - exploding with pride.