- She is trying to revise for her final exams. Confusingly her elderly neighbour keeps ringing her bell, then going back indoors. Has she gone mad or is she just trying to disturb her out of badness? I ring the old lady's bell. She indicates the Xmas parcel left outside, uncollected.
- I was intrigued by the tap-tapping usually associated with the lesser spotted woodpecker but scrutiny of the plane trees proved fruitless. Then, realising the sound emanated from an empty car parked nearby, set me worrying until I noticed the tiny bluetit pecking obsessively at his reflection in the wing mirror.
- While walking peacefully through Kensington Gardens, the woman walking in front of me suddenly started to contort her body. Her arms angled outwards and her torso twisted backwards. I thought poor woman, she must have a muscular disease. Then I spied the squirrel which had scurried up to her waist.
- Leaning on the railing overlooking the Thames, we watched the silted waters like wrinkled skin stream down river with the tide. A lone duckling, days old, came swimming past the wall below. Only, sadly, he wasn't swimming but being swept and swirled by the ebb tide to God knows where.
- Yesterday we had a rogue Alsation in the park. He was attempting to approach a man with two huskies on leads either side of him. The man was having the devil's own time trying to stop the huskies from ripping the Alsation to shreds. The youngster trotted off, friendship rejected.
- "I'll go this way now and look," shouted the man to the woman standing with two Pekinese in the park. An hour later a different couple with two Pekinese were looking in all directions.
"Lost a dog," I enquired.
"Oh no, we've found one. We're looking for the owners."