Just been to the Southampton Club Shop

Just chilling

Lovely morning. Moorhen chicks, now two woodpecker nests and both goslings and ducklings doing well.

Just been lucky enough to notice a Great Spotted Woodpecker nest and see an adult feeding the chicks - you can hear them chittering excitedly when the food arrives!

Michael says hi

Just been lucky enough to notice a Great Spotted Woodpecker nest and see an adult feeding the chicks - you can hear them chittering excitedly when the food arrives!

The Common this morning features a friendly goose family and a rabbit taking advantage of already low water levels.

Cold but sunny down by the pool

The shower inspector has retrained

People will come to believe they're called 'PM' because they only last the afternoon.

"Coronation Streeting" was RIGHT THERE

What better way to commemorate a closing speech than an excellent curry in a top cricketers' haunt and some increasingly blurry cocktails?

Reasons Why My Cat is Mad, No 437 She likes nothing better than to inspect a recently vacated shower

And on another pond - ducklings, more goslings and misc waterfowl of varied hue

New goslings this morning! No more than a few days old.

Live footage of me doing NYT Connections this morning

Another lovely day on the Common, now with added gosling

Michael is seven months old today. She is celebrating by making a comfy bed out of some packaging paper.

Near the end of another week away. This was the Common last Sunday, including a first sighting of a (distant) moorhen chick this year.

Now two differences in US Cluedo: (i) It's called'Clue' (ii) No deaths can happen in the Ballroom.

Back after week seven in Birmingham and into Chambers all day today for pupillage interviews. The walk over Waterloo Bridge is a cheer.

"Leave me alone. Can't you see I'm having a wash?"

Met this guy on the Common last Sunday. Great conversationalist.

Goose attack aside, a lovely long walk on the Common this morning.

GOOOOOSE!!!!

Exploring outside and listening to birds

Michael would like to announce that it is officially The Weekend

Just on the train going past two horses that have fallen out.

Still no sign of last week's ducklings but on another pond we met these guys. The mother's unusual coloration is reflected in some of the ducklings. Various Mandarins wandering around too.

No sign of the duck or ducklings this morning. I carried out a thorough search. I even interviewed some of their avian colleagues, but they all kept schtum.

Utterly Foxed

Duckling Update: One of them is lightning quick

Fans of Michael may be pleased to learn that she ventured OUTSIDE today, although she needs a bigger harness!

Obligatory morning ducklings

Obligatory morning ducklings

Another breathtaking morning. Bumped into the ducklings again.

Ducklings, baby rabbits, bluebells and at least 32 different sorts of birds; the Common this morning is like walking through the I-Spy Book of Spring

The first ducklings I've seen this year on the Common today

We played fairly terribly. We lost 0-7 (SEVEN), but fair play to the @officialpvfc.bsky.social fans. You did yourself proud. This was the end of the game.

6,000 @officialpvfc.bsky.social fans are heading to Stamford Bridge today for the clubs first FA Cup QF since 1954. Train lines are closed and many have made a massive effort. For me, it's just the 4-5 tube stops from Wimbledon

For anyone fearing feline attack, I regret to inform you that Michael has invented the tank...

For anyone fearing feline attack, I regret to inform you that Michael has invented the tank...

Michael is six months old today. I have wished her a Half-Happy Half-Birthday.

She looks like butter wouldn't melt... But half an hour ago I got home to find that she'd knocked a full bottle of (good) whiskey off a previously inaccessible shelf, all over the floor. No obvious ill effects, and I've force washed her paws in case she trod in it...

I'm being spied on by a jay

I'm being spied on by a jay

Morning.

Met this youngster on the Common this morning

Remember to keep clean this #Caturday. Particularly if it's your half-birthday next Thursday.