There’s a very good chance that when you are driving or riding along a road or track adjacent to a field in which cattle are present that you inexplicably say – to no one in particular – “cows,” or perhaps even give voice to a soft but prolonged and emphatic “mooooo.”
File this under “would that I were.” If you are, unlike me, fortunate enough to be attending Birdfair, the British Birdwatching Fair at Rutland Water later this month, please do me a favor – give my best wishes to a few friends of mine whom I haven’t seen for far too long.