Hamish had laid an egg. I had no idea that a male tortoise could do such a thing. But, there is it was, off-white in shade, shaped and sized like a bird’s egg, perhaps a pigeon’s. Hamish was eyeing his production suspiciously. His beak was open, as if he was going to say something along the lines of…

This week I have been thinking about … VOLCANOS Unusually for me, I ventured out of the country for a few days for a change of climate. I visited an island that’s edged by a series of dramatic volcanoes but thankfully none of them were switched on at the time…