Learning to fly

Since late October I’ve been watching a pair of wood ducks nurse their brood of ducklings to maturity. I have a large dam at my house and each morning I can look out the kitchen window and watch the duck family warming themselves in the morning sun. There were nine...

The boy who never learnt to walk.

My four-year-old grandson never learnt to walk. That was just a stage on the way to learning to run because he runs everywhere. Except when he is riding his bike! He actually taught himself to ride in the aisles of Kmart – without trainer wheels! It’s a recent...