Cardiff wildlife enjoys a great resurgence around springtime. Around my Atlantic Wharf neighbourhood the local wildfowl come out of themselves in a variety of ways. Louder squawking from the canal or wharf, at all times of the day and night, signal the urgency of mating season. In fact, it’s not unlike the noise which regularly […]
The old barge, Eben Haezer mattered to Atlantic Wharf. Our small part of Cardiff is a poorer place after losing of one of its few distinctive features. Granted, it’s no real tragedy. Nobody died. Hopefully not even an unsuspecting coot was trapped as the rusty old vessel burped, clanked and went sliding under, one final […]
Be outraged or angry about the murder of Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe, but look out for the wildlife on your own doorstep. It’s a strange contradiction that you can broadly love wildlife without mourning creatures when they die. You casually accept they must die, it’s the way of things. It just isn’t thought about that much because […]
Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago, we’d slept in. It hadn’t been a crazy wild Saturday night. I’d stayed up later than anticipated after Match Of The Day, tweaking and trying to understand the system for my new website. (This new website, here. Take a look around). It was hard to get a sense […]