What can I say? Summer arrived – full of promise. The sun shone brightly, the wind dropped and we even had to drag the air conditioning unit into the office. It was just a cheapo one and is incredibly noisy, hence we tend to use fans unless it’s too hot for the fans to work effectively. It’s not so much that the weather is mega hot; it’s just that, with the two of us working in a small room, each running a PC from dawn to dusk, the heat just becomes overpowering.

Living next to a water meadow, we regularly see herons out there searching for food but I’d always viewed these strange, gangly birds as being rather dull. Now that I’ve taken up photography, I’ve seen a different side! If you take a closer look at their draping plumage is quite magnificent