CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  At first glance I thought this was a bee, resting on a gorse flower - then I noticed those club-tipped antennae, the un-beelike way it hel...

A field on the edge of Durham city, full of thousands of dandelion 'clocks', waiting for a breeze to carry their plumed seeds aloft....

I had been hoping for a good cherry-plum harvest this summer - the fruits make excellent jam - but the hedgerow trees that I had my eye on a...