DevonThink — What’s Great About It DevonThink has been my repository for any items that I want to safely keep for several years now. It has served me well during this time and I have accumulated a large volume of PDFs, images, web links and many other items. That’s one of the most important attributes … Read more
A Holiday for the Soul After an extremely busy year, we both felt like we needed a total break. Unusually for us, we decided not to organise an active holiday. Instead, this holiday was going to be about relaxation and restoring our mental and physical well-being. We chose Reddot Tours and in consultation with them settled … Read more
Irkhaya Farm 7-3-20 Somedays you get lucky. I have to confess to feeling a little bleary eyed this morning, so when I arrived at the farm and could see no raptors in the air I thought it was going to be a quiet day. I needn’t have worried. I’ve got a route that a usually … Read more
Madrid February – March 2020 I’ve always wanted to watch the Real Madrid v Barcelona match and this year I was lucky enough to bag a couple of tickets for the game. I’ve been to Madrid before, but that was in the hot summer months so I was looking forward to discovering what a winter … Read more
February in Sofia As is our habit, we generally travel to somewhere cold in February. This year, we decided on Sofia, Bulgaria. Our plan was to spend four days in the capital, and as usual we spent a lot of our time walking around the city. We averaged between 15km and 20km each day. Walking … Read more
Irkhaya Farm 22-2-20 Today’s visit was quieter than normal with only one Harrier quartering the fields. There have recently been five or six of these birds in the air, as well as significant numbers of kestrels — see this post for more about kestrels.Today’s visit was quieter than normal with only one Harrier quartering the … Read more