Sometimes I cave in …

Egg & Cheese McMuffin meal with latte for breakfast ☕

7/7 12:30am - First listen to I Inside the Old Year Dying 🎵

🔗 Hard act to swallow: gull caught on film eating squirrel whole

It is a jaw-dropping scene worthy of a Hitchcock film

Wow!

View through our letterbox on returning home after an evening doing a quiz in our local pub 🐈

(photo taken by my daughter)

First over: Stuart Broad removes David Warner - for the 16th time in Tests - for 4 🏏

🏏 Ashes: Day one, third Test, Headingley

This is the toad who lives in my greenhouse 🐸

Seems like a very strange (sometimes very hot) place for a toad to want to live in but it’s been there for well over three months now. I have to be very careful when hoeing between the plants because it’s often completely buried in a well-camouflaged burrow which occasionally moves location.

I’ve been trying to get a better photograph but it’s fairly timid and makes a dash for cover whenever it notices me 😄

Book 📚 and Butty Bach 🍺 in Hay

Gateway

Location check in 🗺 — one night at The Old Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye. Superb Wye Valley Smokery kippers served for breakfast 🐟

Hay-on-Wye 📚

Location check in 🗺 — Blue Boar, Hay-on-Wye for a pint of Timothy Taylor’s Landlord, one of my favourite beers 🍺

South Wales Fire Service helicopter carrying water has been repeatedly flying back and forth over our house all day today (still going now at 7pm and I think I first saw it about 8am).

According to Natural Resources Wales there’s a wildfire in Gethin Forest between Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, just over the side of the valley from us 🔥😟

Very dramatic final day in the 2nd Ashes Test 🏏

♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: The Kinks (15), Jonathan Wilson (3), Sparks (3), Jonathan Russell (2) & Paul Beaubrun (2) via @tweeklyfm