Category: Dispatches from the Back Yard
-
Meet the Wildlife Cast of Sparrow Farts and Sprawks Every long-running show develops recurring characters, like the opening credits of a slightly unhinged wildlife documentary filmed by someone with too much coffee and access to a back garden. You do not plan for this to happen. You start by putting out some bird seed, hanging…
-
The Window and The Coal Tit The Sound of Something Losing It happened the way these things always do, with a dull, stupid thud that is not dramatic enough for what it means. Not a crash. Not a smash. Just the sound of something very small losing an argument with something very clean. I put…