Our house is a very, very, very fine house, as the first line goes in a song by Crosby Stills Nash and Young. It appeared in an era when stability in thought and behaviour was being swept away. 1970 was when the counterculture of the sixties had already matured. And to sing about a house…

How the zebra got its stripes – I’ll explain that and more about stripes. First though we have a greeting card in the on-line shop with a photo of a rear view of a zebra and text ‘Do my stripes look fat in this?’ The words are a play on the phrase when people ask…

The orange and blue bird of paradise flower is so distinctive. I have photographed the flower in different locations. In fact, we used a photo of the flower for our ‘Wild Hair’ greeting card. More about that below. The bird of paradise flower is also known as the crane flower. It certainly looks like some…