Simply grow - and watch the wildlife

A number of years ago Ross, aged three, shared his breakfast with a robin. He was enjoying his cornflakes outside in the sun, and casually dropped a bit in the direction of a baby robin which was hopping on the grass. We watched quietly from the door, as Ross walked slowly all around the garden, talking to the robin and dropping little bits of cereal, and the robin followed closely. The innocence of them both was very touching. Ross was too young to realise that wild birds didn't usually do this, and the baby robin was too young to know it should be wary of people.

We think this is the robin which today sits on the doorhandle, looking intently in, waiting to be fed, brings its babies to show us, and likes to sunbathe beside me on the bench. I was sitting with my face up to the hot sun and my arms relaxed out by my sides, when I looked down and saw beside me the robin hunkered down, with its face up to the sun and its wings spread out to keep it cool....