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.