Mike Hollis’ Blog

Family, Goats and Red squirrels

Family, Goats and Red squirrels

Ever since our two sons left home for university, we always travelled from our previous home in Cheshire to visit them in Hertfordshire and Yorkshire. Our elder son now lives in Mozambique on a temporary basis, as his wife had been promoted in the company she works...
Birds and travel

Birds and travel

Annabel enjoys bird watching. Our garden has several bird feeding points which give her plenty of opportunities to watch her feathered friends. She had never seen a siskin before, I’d never even heard of one. Recently, she was delighted to find an increasing number of...
More Visitors

More Visitors

We’ve had our second visitors for a few days– Steve and Karen. I’ve known Steve since my days at Portsmouth Polytechnic (1969-72) studying for my Bachelor’s degree. We went our different ways when we graduated, teacher training in Cheshire for me and accountancy...
The weather has been much worse than expected

The weather has been much worse than expected

OK, I’m going to correct a statement from last month: ‘the weather has been much better than we expected’. The weather is lousy at the moment. It’s cold, it’s stormy and it’s wet. The warm, dry and calm weather last month wasn’t an illusion but, according to local...
New Year, New County, New Horizons