Bumblebees

and robins keeping us company in the garden today. 

And the delight of "King Solomon's Mines" as radio drama. As read aloud to us in the dormitory at Bardwell Road by "Putty" Barraclough when I was 8 and a little Dragon. He had learnt some parts by heart, so when the candle went out in the story, he would blow out his own and continue the story in pitch dark. A tour de force of storytelling by author and reader.