Category Archives: Lockdown Diary

My hip started giving me gyp last night… and is worse today. Part of the fun of ageing with a chronic disease is the sight of me hobbling about with sticks, or swaying like a drunken sailor trying to traverse … Continue reading →

Today’s ‘Lockdown Diary’ is a not-so- ‘Random Rant’. As Alanis Morissette sang… ‘isn’t it Ironic’ that, on the last day of National Anti-Bullying Week, our Prime Minister gave his full support to the Home Secretary finding her not guilty of … Continue reading →

Growing up I never saw a Buzzard. Kent, like most counties in the east of England, was devoid of breeding buzzards; shot out by Victorian ‘sportsmen’ and gamekeepers. Shockingly, the other day someone filming a buzzard on a Kent reserve … Continue reading →

Too busy for an outing today – domestic deliveries and planned Zoom calls. So here is the last of my previously unidentified fund. As always, ID is provisional. I’m hoping that the distinctive colour and form are a clincher to … Continue reading →

Lots of work to catch up on… but there was a break in the weather; dry, sunny and mild. I could spend all day at the computer ensuring fatbirder.com was updated… or take a break to refresh the spirit. Obviously … Continue reading →

Lockdown, inevitably, has lots of domestic days. I’m not generally too bothered about the lack of social contact… we are lucky to have each other and technology takes care of keeping in touch with family and friends. Yes, I miss … Continue reading →

I just couldn’t force myself to go the cliffs when the gale was blowing sheets of rain and, no doubt, loads of birding goodies. Instead I pretended to work between periods of cosy novel reading and Sky Movies. Not the … Continue reading →

I’ve been trying to ID these fungi for ages. Whenever I put their picture in a fungi ID app the result was a number of species that were similar, but not exactly the same. As often happens with such things, … Continue reading →

Last of the National Tree Week pictures is of a hedge at my local surgery. Beech can form a dense hedge and the leaves often tend to cling through winter almost until fresh buds appear. European Beech Fagus sylvatica I … Continue reading →