Friday, December 21, 2012

Mr Fox Goes Christmas Shopping!



There is a great little shop in Brighton that sells unusual and rather cool and very colourful funky lights  called Cable and Cotton: www.cableandcotton.co.uk in Meeting House Lane, in the Lanes, Brighton. Yesterday the staff were rather surprised to see a good looking wild Fox at the door in broad daylight at about lunchtime. They opened the door of the shop and the fox trotted in and looked the wares up and down, then wandered through to the back of the shop, into the toilet and jumped up on a shelf and sat there, quite calmly for an hour. 

After a while, the fox jumped down, wandered through the shop again, looking rather intently at the lights for sale, went up to the door and was let out into the street. Perhaps he took a real shine to my lights on sale, but could not pluck up the courage to talk to the staff and ask them for a box, for fear causing a fuss...a talking fox in Brighton?!!

Mr Fox Goes Christmas Shopping



Friday, September 21, 2012

Backwater Gems

Britain has many rivers, streams, and waterways. If you happen to pass over an old stone bridge and peer down below, you may just find a little magic. A perfect place for a picnic or to spy a coot or water-rail with its chicks bobbling along on the surface and disappearing into lush grassy reeds...


                        Arundel: Inlet to Swanbourne Lake  
                      

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Glorious Countryside

Britain has a plethora of natural gems. Green rolling hills, fields of golden wheat and barley, these images spring to mind when one is abroad for a while and thinks back and longs for 'Blighty'.

Footpaths galore, hills, lakes, rivers, mountains, seas, valleys, spinneys, forests, magic, laughter, fish and chips and amazing people. Its all there, never too far...and if you just try a little, you will find it and then loose yourself in its magic...  

                                     West Sussex Summer Field, Houghton Forest, Arundel

                                   South Sands, Devon: Transport out to meet the Ferry to Salcombe


                                                           Arundel Castle: Eccentric Water Gardens


                                                  Croyde Beach: North Devon...great spot to hike and surf