It is strange how life turns out. When my wife and I first got together she bought an apartment in Cyprus with what I called her redundancy money, from her divorce. We used to spend days driving around the remote areas looking for the sort of birds we now get in our garden. Hoopoes, golden orioles, four kinds of woodpecker, hawfinch, even a rose ringed parakeet and wryneck one year. And out on mole-patrol I see all the raptors and water birds that we used to go and see in Cyprus. Same with orchids. We used to find the places where different species grew. Now we are falling over them. One of my