Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it

There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.

Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.