Status-Q

...everything looks like a tripod!

I’m a big fierce bird.

No, really, I am!

You think I’m only small, but I’m going to be big and fierce one day.

Are you scared yet?

See – I’m practising already.

There, that’s a pretty fierce look!

Rose and I have been removing some foliage today. This was the second load...

The undercroft at Old Soar Manor, in Kent. Light has shone through this door for over 700 years.

I pulled up behind this enormous truck, which towered over the (not insubstantial) car I had borrowed from my in-laws. There was one person in it, the driver, on his way to work, I should think.

There are two stickers on the back. The left one says, “Out of a job yet? Keep buying foreign!” and the other, “Please don’t fly MY flag on your foreign car!”

Somehow I think that’s not the real problem…

If you're visiting Salisbury Cathedral, and you want to make sure your photos don't look too much like those Constable paintings, here are some suggestions:

• Ask any passing peasants, cattle, haywains etc to keep out of the frame
• Take only an 80mm equivalent lens, which means there's no way you can actually get a shot of the whole cathedral
• Arrive just as it's getting dark.

Above Cotignac, Provence.

If there’s a convenient cave in the cliff next to your house, where better to park your Renault 4?

Just to stop my friends at home from getting too jealous, I should point out that the storm clouds sometimes gather even in Provence in the summer.

Some of the most impressive formations I've seen for a long time swirled overhead this morning, and the hills echoed with the low rumble of thunder.

Note that this photo was taken just before 9am this morning at the same spot as my post of a couple of days ago.

Still, I'm not expecting too much sympathy... we jumped in the pool, then had a splendid breakfast brought up by John and Fiona from the town below, and the sun is now shining brightly again...

It’s tough here.

Yesterday afternoon in Cambridge I had my headlights and wipers on. It’s amazing what a couple of hours in a plane can do.

What colour is a light switch?