Happy to follow you up the path Linda!

If you vanish we will send out search parties... .

Grayson, that is....

Well, good for him.

"Electric blue tennis ball" is a perfect description, and always a wonderful bird to see.

One of my favourite spots in the English countryside Linda!

Spot on Peter

Evidence?

No need to apologise. That is a good one.

Absolutely. Dumbing down for money.

Yes indeed. At the moment, our politics is just dull and no more than competent, but USA politics is mad and very dangerous.

Spot on as always Linda

Private note in the morning!

It is a tragedy that so many of them end up looking scraggy and underfed....

Fine animal, and much maligned... D

Knowing Trump's tastes, I expect you would be asked for Coca-Cola based cocktails. Yuk.

Thank you, I will try it!

Well, good luck and keep on writing!

Follow-up: writing from Lagos, Nigeria, where one official dinner has had no wine, no beer, and only iffy cocktails....

... what is the recipe for the elderflower mint martini?

Good response, but ...

..... and goslings are goosing! Great picture.

I am in deepest Nigeria. Not many amiable foxes here!

One of your very best Linda!

... if we do not understand the living world apart from animals, then we will have nothing to eat, and we (and the planet) will die. Of course, I have a bias towards medicine (been a doctor for 56 years!) but the plants are what matters in the end.

Whenever scientifically-minded school-leavers ask me about the most interesting areas of science for the future, I always recommend botany (or plant science, or whatever you wish to call it). Of course, we mostly think of medicine and the closely-related sciences, but ...

Absolutely not!

Spot-on LInda - the most dangerous time in the world in my lifetime ( = 79 years!)

I agree, the classic of classics. However, choose your bartender...

Don't mess with the Danes