Where the Boywonder finds a friend

Where the Boywonder finds a friend

J kindly walked the dogs this morning. He went off with two and came back with three! He called me from Beckenham Place Park to tell me that an elderly, friendly dog had latched onto Oscar and Raffles. He wanted to play with them and showed no sign of wanting to find...

On youths and dogs

I’m still rather shaken up although on reflection I probably wasn’t in any real danger. Walking my lovely flat coated retriever, Oscar, in Beckenham Place Park as usual, I cam across three youths with stereotypical “Staffie-cross” looking dogs....

Ironic…

I’ve just taken Oscar for our first walk of the new year around the golf course. The weather is murky and gloomy today, and it’s blowing a gale. In fact Oscar and I were caught in a Diluvian squall of rain, hail and gale that soaked us to the skin. So much...

Art homework: autumn afternoon in Beckenham Place Park

Darling Daughter is using her Dad’s proper camera to photograph her work of Andy Goldsworthy-style sculpture. Ironically, it took at least an hour to put together the raw materials to make this leaf, an evocation of natural design in a natural setting....