Cracking day at Edinburgh Zoo, almost too much light, lovely day. And, amazingly, many of the animals we hardly ever see made an appearance.Pallas Cat Giant Anteater Maned WolfAnd some of the more usually visible animals were looking fine too: I’ll link these up to hi-res downloads on MorgueFile when I get them uploaded (Morguefile servers are...

I was in the bookshop* yesterday and saw a book called something like “1001 Places to See Before You Die”. A very nice picture book, full of interesting locations. There are many of it’s type. It struck me that, if you’re not careful, it could be quite a depressing thing. Clearly, I’m not going to see all the places contained within, so...