A squirrel in tiree

30-minute birder Amanda Tuke sees the benefits of being distracted by birds at home, and on the coast

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

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Claudia Savage-Gore on her sub-Saharan homesick blues

When Jonty and I agreed (for once, we agreed!) to split up, after many years together, it took a lot of negotiating to decide who kept what. Neither of us could afford to buy out the other from what h

Finally reaching the island, Beth realised something was very wrong