Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon

You're capable of this: You're also capable of this: I don't understand. Images via CNN and The Guardian/Niyi Fote/via Zuma Wire...

 For nearly fifty years I've had the faint memory of a book encountered during the very start of my schooldays, but about which I could ...

 

  For the last couple of winters, or part thereof, we had roosting birds occupying this nest box. Last year a great tit was in all winter, t...

 A couple of sketches based on observations of weasels in our garden.

 Assuming no change in human longevity, someone alive in the 23rd century will have a clear memory of meeting someone who lived through Covi...

 Today marks the anniversary of the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone accident, Britain's worst peacetime railway incident, resulting in the lo...