"It's a funny old year this year" Said a funny old man on the pier.

Where have all the fish gone?

Well; the truth is that the world is a dynamic place, always on the change and just now it's speeding up a bit and if this fellow gets a move on but pauses where the pier meets the beach where the diggers are piling up shingle, he'll see more fish than in Billingsgate market.

It's the same most years but but it is a bit of a funny old year this year with all this sunshine and who knows what will happen exactly?

It's a similar story on the Downs with the wildflowers short of water and the butterflies suffering in numbers due to lack of pollen but in the valley bottoms where there's shade, such as in my allotment in the Coombe, they are doing very well.

So, don't panic.

"Don't juts look at things but 'see' them"