“Is that white sheen on the
grass dew or frost?” I asked when we were walking on the field with Dusty this morning. We
were surrounded by it. My phone can only take selfies as there is a fault with
the camera, but I managed to get a photo. I should have known it was too warm
for frost. And I should have realised that the dew was clinging to webs.
How many spiders must have
spun those webs? And where were they all?
It’s amazing to think that
every day we walk on the fields completely oblivious to all the webs beneath
our feet. We trod a lot more carefully today, mindful of all the little
creatures that had worked so hard to spin their webs.
I’m still reading the Last
Kingdom series by Bernard Cornwell. I watched a question and answer session
with him and was delighted to learn that book 10 is not to be the last and that
not only is the second television series scheduled for next spring, but a
further two series have been optioned.
One of the many interesting
things that he said was that he never plans his books. If you want to watch the
Q&A session with him and his editor, you can find it at the top of his
Facebook page here.
